Dunbar Center: Clorox Wipes Found in Resident Bathroom - WV
The inspection took place on January 28, 2026. At 11:55 a.m., during an initial tour of the 116-bed facility at 501 Caldwell Lane, the inspector observed the wipes on the sink. Three minutes later, Licensed Practical Nurse #21 confirmed they did not belong there. "Let me get these out of here," the nurse said, and removed the container.
By 12:20 p.m., the administrator had been notified and confirmed the same thing: Clorox wipes should not be stored in a resident's bathroom.
The deficiency was cited under the federal standard requiring facilities to prevent accidents, and CMS assessed it as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm. The inspection was a complaint survey. The facility's census at the time was 116 residents.
The finding was classified as affecting few residents, and the discovery was described in the inspection record as a random opportunity — meaning the inspector happened upon it in the course of touring, not as the result of a targeted search.
That is the entirety of what inspectors documented at Dunbar Center on this visit. One room. One container. One nurse who knew immediately it was wrong and said so out loud.
What the record does not explain is how the wipes got there, how long they had been there before the inspector arrived, or whether anyone had entered that bathroom in the hours or days prior without noticing or without acting.
Clorox wipes contain sodium hypochlorite and other chemicals that can cause burns to skin and mucous membranes if ingested or mishandled. In a memory care or long-term care setting, a resident who mistakes a cleaning wipe for a personal care wipe, or who handles one without understanding what it contains, can be harmed before anyone realizes what happened. The risk is not theoretical. It is the reason facilities are expected to keep such products out of reach.
The nurse's response, once asked, was immediate. That matters. It also means someone on staff understood the problem clearly and could articulate it without hesitation. The question inspectors did not answer in this report, and the one that lingers, is whether the wipes would have been removed that day if no one had asked.
The administrator's confirmation came roughly 25 minutes after the inspector first spotted the container. There is no indication in the report that any corrective plan was discussed beyond the removal itself, though facilities are required to submit plans of correction to the state survey agency following any cited deficiency.
Dunbar Center is located on Caldwell Lane in Dunbar, a small city in Kanawha County. The facility's CMS identification number is 515066.
For a complaint inspection that ran to four pages, this single finding, in a single room, involving a single container of cleaning wipes, is what inspectors documented and what CMS chose to cite. Whether the underlying complaint that triggered the visit involved something else entirely, or whether this was its focus, the report does not say.
What it does say is that on a Wednesday morning in late January, a nurse walked into a resident's bathroom, looked at a container of Clorox wipes sitting on the sink, and said: let me get these out of here.
Someone should have said it sooner.
Full Inspection Report
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
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Dunbar Center in DUNBAR, WV was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 29, 2026.
The inspection took place on January 28, 2026.
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