Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is seeking a court order to shut down a nursing home in Canton on behalf of the Ohio Department of Health (ODH).

Yost says ODH inspectors have determined that widespread care failures are putting residents living at House of Loreto, 2812 Harvard Ave, are  in “real and present danger”, because it is failing to provide fundamental care, monitor residents’ medical conditions, and properly manage medications.

Those failures are outlined in a motion for a temporary restraining order and injunction , filed in Start County Common Pleas Court, seeking to close the nursing home and relocate residents to safer facilities. According to the Department of Health, there is sufficient capacity at other nursing homes in the Canton area to accommodate residents quickly and safely.

Yost maintains the nursing home’s failure to come up with an adequate plan to address the issues outlined by ODH, puts 12 of the home’s 29 residents at serious risk, and that six residents have  already suffered actual harm.

Among the Ohio Department of Health’s most serious findings at the House of Loreto:

• Residents receiving blood-thinning medications were not being properly tracked.
• Kidney problems went unmonitored, resulting in hospitalizations.
• Poor wound care caused infections that failed to heal.
• Medications were administered without proper documentation.
• Narcotics were inadequately controlled.
• The facility lacked essential backup medications.
• There was no infection prevention specialist on staff.
• The facility failed to take adequate precautions to prevent residents with dementia from wandering from the nursing home.

Yost says the inspectors also discovered deep leadership and staffing failures. New owners took over the House of Loreto in March 2025 but did not establish a governing board. Compounding these issues, the facility is understaffed further jeopardizing resident care.