Marmet Center: Environmental Safety Violations - WV
The inspector went. The droppings were there.
The complaint investigation at Marmet Center, a nursing home with 89 residents in Marmet, West Virginia, was conducted on January 30, 2026. It began, as many do, with a tip. An anonymous source described areas inside the facility where mouse droppings could be found. A second anonymous source, interviewed separately, confirmed they had personally seen droppings behind furniture in two resident rooms, the same rooms identified in the first interview.
Those rooms were not inspected in isolation. At approximately 1:00 p.m. that day, the surveyor walked into the Activities Director's office on B Hall and found mouse droppings on the floor near the outer wall on the left side of the room.
The Regional Administrator was present and verified the finding ten minutes later.
What the inspection report does not say is how long the droppings had been there. It does not say whether residents had reported anything, or whether staff had. It does not say whether the facility had an active pest control contract, or when the rooms in question had last been cleaned behind the furniture. None of that is in the record because none of it was provided.
What is in the record is that two separate people inside the building, speaking without their names attached, knew which rooms to name. That kind of specific, convergent knowledge does not typically come from a single recent incident.
At 5:00 p.m. that same day, an exit interview was held with the facility's Administrator, Clinical Lead, and Market Resource Clinician. The findings were laid out. All three acknowledged them.
The deficiency was cited under the federal standard requiring nursing homes to maintain a safe, functional, sanitary, and comfortable environment. Inspectors classified the level of harm as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and noted the problem had the potential to affect more than an isolated number of residents.
Eighty-nine people live at Marmet Center. Some of them, according to the inspection record, had mouse droppings sitting behind their furniture.
The activities director's office, where droppings were directly observed, is a shared space, a place where residents are expected to gather, to participate, to spend time. It is not a storage room or a utility corridor. It is, by design, part of the living environment the facility is required to keep sanitary.
The citation carries a plan of correction requirement for the facility to remain in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Whether that plan addresses how the mice got in, how long they have been present, or what is behind the furniture in rooms beyond the two identified by anonymous sources, the inspection report does not say.
What it says is that when a federal inspector arrived following a complaint, the droppings were exactly where the sources said they would be.
The administrator, the clinical lead, and the market resource clinician sat in a room at the end of that day and agreed that was true.
Somewhere in B Hall, in the office where residents are supposed to come for activities, the droppings were on the floor by the wall when the inspector walked in at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Marmet Center from 2026-01-30 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Last verified: August 5, 2026 · Our methodology
MARMET CENTER in MARMET, WV was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 30, 2026.
The complaint investigation at Marmet Center, a nursing home with 89 residents in Marmet, West Virginia, was conducted on January 30, 2026.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.