Stellar Care Center: Staffing Assessment Failures - OH
That gap, documented during a September 2025 complaint inspection, sits at the center of what federal inspectors found at the 35-bed nursing home on Moore Ridge Road: a facility assessment so disconnected from reality that the Director of Nursing and the Administrator confirmed it themselves.
Fifteen of the facility's 35 residents depended on staff for toileting. Fourteen needed staff help to get dressed each day. Another fourteen couldn't bathe or shower without assistance. Nine required staff to physically transfer them, moving them from bed to wheelchair, from chair to toilet, from one position to another.
The facility's own written assessment said it was staffed to handle five.
Five residents dependent on dressing. Five on bathing. Five on transfers. Five on toileting. That was the ceiling the facility had put on paper, the number around which it had built its staffing plan.
The staffing plan itself called for four full-time registered nurses, four full-time licensed practical nurses, and fifteen certified nurse aides, counting one part-time position, to care for that capped population of five per category. What the facility actually had was one registered nurse working full time, five full-time LPNs, one part-time LPN, twelve full-time CNAs, and one part-time CNA.
The dietary department had its own version of the same problem. The facility assessment listed three full-time cooks and three dietary aides as necessary to meet resident needs. When inspectors spoke with the Dietary Director on September 11, she told them the department was running on two full-time cooks and two full-time aides. The third cook position, and the third aide, existed on paper. Not in the building.
On September 17, inspectors sat down with the Director of Nursing and the Facility Administrator together. What came out of that interview was unusual in its directness. The two confirmed that based on the current facility assessment, the facility did not have an adequate amount of staff to care for the current resident population, with timeliness and quality. They also confirmed they had not accurately completed the facility-wide assessment to begin with.
The assessment is not a formality. It is the document a nursing home uses to tell itself, and regulators, what its residents need and whether it has the people to provide it. When fifteen residents need help reaching a toilet and the plan accounts for five, the math doesn't leave much room for an aide who's already in another room, or a shift running short, or a weekend when the part-time staff doesn't come in. Inspectors noted the deficiency had the potential to affect all residents, across day-to-day operations and emergencies, nights and weekends included.
The finding was classified as minimal harm or potential for actual harm. It was also flagged as an incidental discovery, meaning inspectors arrived to investigate a separate complaint and found this on top of it. The underlying complaint that triggered the inspection is not described in the portion of the report made available.
What the report leaves behind is a facility that wrote a staffing plan for a lighter version of itself, one with a third as many residents needing hands-on help, then kept operating as though that version were real. The Director of Nursing and Administrator, when asked directly, said it wasn't.
Stellar Care Center had 35 residents at the time of the inspection. Fifteen of them were waiting on staff to help them use the bathroom.
Full Inspection Report
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STELLAR CARE CENTER in WOODSFIELD, OH was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 30, 2025.
Fifteen of the facility's 35 residents depended on staff for toileting.
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