What we know about the Pine Kirk Care Center in Kirkersville

Nearly half the small home’s residents are registered sex offenders.

The Pine Kirk Care Center nursing home in Kirkersville is a small facility of 24 beds. It had 23 residents at its last inspection by the state.

The Kirkersville Police Chief and two employees of the home were killed today when a gunman entered the nursing home and them killed himself.

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The home is rated as average for health and fire safety inspections and nursing levels on Medicare.gov's Nursing Home Compare tool, which compiles inspection reports of licensed nursing homes from each state.

In late 2016, when the Dayton Daily News did an investigation into sex offenders living in Ohio nursing homes, there were 10 residents living at Pine Kirk who were on the Ohio sex offender registry. Their crimes ranged from gross sexual imposition to rape of children.

Some crimes were decades old, while others occurred within the past 10 years.

A search of the registry today showed there are currently nine residents who are registered sex offenders.

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The home’s most recent health inspection was in November. It was issued two deficiencies, one of proper storage of food and one indicating their infection control procedures needed improvement.

Both were minor infractions that posed minimal harm to residents.

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There was also a complaint inspection done at the home a year ago after one resident hit another resident with a cane, resulting in the victim being admitted to the hospital intensive care unit.

Pine Kirk has not received any federal fines or denials of Medicare payments in the past three years, according to the Medicare page.

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