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Ohio Veterans Home

A nursing home in Sandusky, Ohio 44870

3416 Columbus Ave, Sandusky, Ohio 44870. (419) 625-2454.

  • Cited for abuse (CMS flag)
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The short answer

Record last released by CMS on Oct 28, 2026.

The last 24 months 19 citations in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: immediate jeopardy to health or safety (J). Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean8
Star ratings
CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Scope and severity (A to L)
CMS grades each nursing home deficiency with a letter. A to C: no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. D to F: no actual harm, but potential for more. G to I: actual harm. J to L: immediate jeopardy. Within each band, the letter rises as more residents were affected or could be: one or a few, a pattern, or widespread. Source: CMS, nursing home scope and severity grid (State Operations Manual, chapter 7).
Nurse staffing hours
The hours registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurse aides worked, per resident per day, from the payroll records each home sends CMS. Source: CMS, Payroll-Based Journal.
Fines and payment denials
A fine (civil money penalty) is money CMS makes a nursing home pay when it falls short of federal rules. A payment denial means Medicare and Medicaid stop paying for new admissions until the home meets the rules again. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.430 and 488.417.
Immediate jeopardy
CMS’s most serious finding: the place’s failure to meet a rule caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death to someone in its care. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 489.3.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

9 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The Ohio average is 10.5.

Last standard inspection Jun 11, 2026.

Most serious in three years: immediate jeopardy to health or safety (J), at a complaint inspection on Nov 6, 2025

Source:

CMS, Provider Information, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

When those citations happened

19 citations in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: immediate jeopardy to health or safety (J). The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

19 citations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

All 19 citations in the last three years

Grouped by inspection, newest first. Each carries , from A, the least serious, to L, the most. 10 came from complaint inspections.

Source:

CMS, Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Jun 11, 2026: standard inspection4 citations

  • Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.

    Rule F0604. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jul 14, 2026.

  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

    Rule F0689. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jul 14, 2026.

  • Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

    Rule F0697. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jul 14, 2026.

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Rule F0880. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jul 14, 2026.

Feb 5, 2026: complaint inspection4 citations

  • Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.

    Rule F0607. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 28, 2026.

  • Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

    Rule F0609. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 28, 2026.

  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

    Rule F0610. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 28, 2026.

  • Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.

    Rule F0805. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 28, 2026.

Nov 6, 2025: complaint inspection1 citation

  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

    Rule F0600. J: immediate jeopardy to health or safety. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 25, 2025.

Jun 6, 2025: complaint inspection4 citations

  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

    Rule F0689. G: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jun 20, 2025.

  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

    Rule F0600. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jun 20, 2025.

  • Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident’s belongings or money.

    Rule F0602. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Apr 8, 2025.

  • Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

    Rule F0609. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jun 20, 2025.

Jan 28, 2025: complaint inspection1 citation

  • Have policies on smoking.

    Rule F0926. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 7, 2025.

Jan 11, 2024: standard inspection5 citations

  • Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

    Rule F0558. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2024.

  • Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

    Rule F0657. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2024.

  • Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.

    Rule F0685. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2024.

  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

    Rule F0689. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2024.

  • Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

    Rule F0697. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2024.

Is it certified, and in good standing?

  • Certified for Medicare and Medicaid since Oct 1, 2006.
  • Not on CMS’s special focus list.
  • CMS marks it with its abuse icon: cited for abuse or neglect that harmed a resident.
  • No change of ownership in the last 12 months.
  • CMS lists its ownership as government, state.
  • 427 certified beds.
Source:

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Has it been fined or penalized?

  • 1 fine in the last three years, $24,980 in all.
  • No Medicare payment denials in the last three years.
  • 10 citations in the last three years came from complaint inspections.
Source:

CMS, Penalties and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Fines and payment denials, newest first
DateKindAmount
Nov 6, 2025Fine$24,980

Who does the caring?

4.93 nurse hours per resident per day

The Ohio average is 3.71.

CMS publishes staffing about four months after the fact.

Source:

CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Staffing measures
MeasureThis homeOhio average
Nurse hours per resident per day4.933.71
Of which registered nurses0.790.64
At weekends4.443.29
Nursing staff turnover39.2%49%
Registered nurse turnover0%44.4%
Administrators who left1Not given

Who owns it?

  • State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management State Accounting owns 100% directly since Jan 1, 1996; State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management State Accounting owns 100% directly since Feb 28, 2003.
  • 7 owners or officers are people: Kaitlin Reber (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Kaitlin Reber (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); John F Ramey (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Brenda Wachtel (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Brenda Wachtel (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Paula Orchowski (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Paula Orchowski (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)).
  • No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
  • No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.
Source:

CMS, All Owners. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly.

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Organisations CMS lists
OrganisationRoleShareSince
State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management State AccountingOwns 5% or more directly100%Jan 1, 1996
State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management State AccountingOwns a share directly100%Feb 28, 2003
State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management State AccountingAdditional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)Feb 28, 2003

How do residents fare?

  • CMS rates its quality measures 5 of 5 (Ohio average 4.5).
Source:

CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

CMS’s star ratings, from 1 to 5
MeasureRating
Overall rating4 of 5
Health inspections2 of 5
Staffing5 of 5
Quality measures5 of 5

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among the 12 nearest homes, within 13.4 miles, this one had the 5th most health citations at the latest inspection cycle (9; the middle value was 5.5).
Source:

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

The 12 nearest, by straight-line distance
PlaceMiles awayCitations, latest cycle
Ohio Veterans Home This nursing home9
Concord Care and Rehabilitation Center0.72
Providence Care Center1.723
Parkvue Health Care Center1.82
The Meadows at Osborn Park2.912
Admirals Pointe Nursing & Rehabilitation5.41
Otterbein North Shore9.17
Vista Care Center of Milan10.116
Twilight Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation13.04
Bellevue Care Center13.22
Willows at Bellevue13.40
Carecore at Gaymont13.415

What the record doesn’t say

  • Complaints that didn’t lead to a citation aren’t published.
  • Inspections reach CMS’s data about six weeks after they happen, and staffing about four months after.
  • CMS publishes the inspectors’ full written findings in a separate monthly file, which isn’t loaded yet.
  • Fines and Medicare payment denials are the only enforcement CMS publishes; state licence actions aren’t included.

Sources

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider Information (4pq5-n9py).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Penalties (g6vv-u9sr).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, All Owners (afe44b85-cc6d-40d7-b5df-00ae8910d1d2).

    Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, State and US Averages (xcdc-v8bm).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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