Magnolia Manor: Live Roaches Found in Resident Room - LA
That was the scene inspectors documented on the morning of April 30, 2026, during a complaint inspection at the facility on the north side of Shreveport. The room belonged to two residents, identified in the inspection report as Resident 1 and Resident 3. By the time inspectors arrived, roach feces and dead carcasses were already visible on top of the refrigerator. A live roach was crawling on the wall. Another was found underneath the desk-style phone sitting on the refrigerator's surface.
Staff had known about it for at least a day.
A certified nurse aide told inspectors she had noticed a roach in the room the day before. She reported it to maintenance. The maintenance worker confirmed that the aide had told him about a roach on the wall the previous afternoon. A housekeeper said she had also seen one roach in the room the day before.
Nobody had treated the room. Nobody had moved the residents. Nobody had called pest control before the inspectors showed up.
The administrator told inspectors he had gone with the maintenance worker to the room himself. When maintenance lifted the refrigerator, a couple of live roaches ran out from underneath it. By the end of the day, the administrator confirmed what inspectors had already seen with their own eyes: there were live roaches in Resident 1 and Resident 3's room, and there should not have been.
That last part, at least, was not in dispute.
What the inspection report captures is a gap that runs wider than one infested refrigerator. Three separate staff members, working different roles, had each independently noticed roaches in that room before the inspection began. The housekeeper saw one. The aide saw one and reported it. The maintenance worker received that report. The administrator eventually came and saw them himself. At each step, the information passed to the next person. At no step did anyone treat the problem before it was documented by a federal inspector.
Magnolia Manor houses 89 residents. The inspection report noted the deficient practice had the potential to affect all of them.
Cockroaches in a nursing home room are not a minor housekeeping lapse. They carry bacteria on their bodies and in their droppings, contaminating surfaces in spaces where people with compromised immune systems eat, sleep, and receive care. A resident's personal refrigerator, where food is stored, is not an abstract concern in that context.
The inspection classified the harm level as minimal, meaning inspectors did not find evidence that residents had been injured as a direct result of the infestation at the time of the visit. That classification reflects what was documented, not necessarily what the two people living in that room experienced over the preceding days, sleeping in a room where, by the morning of April 30, roach feces had accumulated visibly on top of their refrigerator.
The inspection report does not say how long the infestation had been developing before the aide noticed the first roach. It does not say whether Resident 1 or Resident 3 had reported anything themselves, or whether anyone had asked them.
What it does say is that when the maintenance worker picked up the refrigerator on the morning of the inspection, roaches ran out from underneath it. And when inspectors lifted the phone and the book from the top of that same refrigerator fifteen minutes earlier, more ran out from underneath those.
The room had not been treated. The residents were still in it.
Full Inspection Report
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Magnolia Manor Nursing and Rehab Ctr, LLC in Shreveport, LA was cited for violations during a health inspection on April 30, 2026.
That was the scene inspectors documented on the morning of April 30, 2026, during a complaint inspection at the facility on the north side of Shreveport.
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.