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This nursing center is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Aledo and Mercer County, Illinois. The 80-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
304 S.W. 12th Street
Aledo, Illinois 61231
(309) 582-5376
Aledo Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Aledo Rehabilitation and Health Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
This facility also provides comprehensive adult life skills training, coping skills, aggression, and symptom management, Depression management, and in-house work program. The nursing home also provides respite care, hospice, Alzheimer’s/dementia care, recuperative stay options, physical, occupational and speech therapies, along with a smoking program.
It is the responsibility of federal and state investigators to penalize any nursing home that has violated a rule or regulation that caused harm or could have caused harm to a resident. Many of these penalties involve monetary fines or denial of payment for Medicare services.
Over the last three years, Medicare denied payment on March 08, 2019, due to a lack of quality care. The nursing home received five complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Illinois Adult Protective Services Website.
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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Illinois and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to document appropriate medical symptoms to warrant the use of restraint and follow a restraint reduction plan for [one resident].” The facility’s Physical Restraints/Enabler Policy indicates that “physical restraints are any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent to the resident’s body, which the individual cannot remove easily and which restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one’s body.”
A review of the resident’s current Physician’s orders and Physical Restraints/Enabler Consent form dated April 15, 2016, documents that the resident “is to have a wheelchair with a laptop cushion. This same form documents the reason for the restraint safety. The same form documents release every two hours with activities, at meals, and as needed.”
An assessment form documented on March 16, 2018, that the resident “rocks back and forth in the wheelchair. The laptop cushion keeps [the resident] sitting in the wheelchair and does not restrict [the resident’s] movement.”
The resident was observed on two occasions occurring on April 30, 2018, just before noon and May 1, 2018, at 11:30 AM. On those occasions, the resident “was sitting in the facility’s dining room feeding herself lunch.” The resident was sitting upright in the wheelchair “with correct posture. [The resident’s] laptop cushion was positioned across [their] lap during these times.”
The investigative team interviewed a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who verified that the resident’s “laptop cushion was positioned across [their lap while they were] eating lunch.” The LPN also verified that “this laptop cushion should have been removed before the lunch meal” and confirmed that the laptop cushion “is to prevent [the resident] from falling forward.”
The RN “attempted to have the resident remove [their] laptop cushion from [their] lap.” However, the resident was unable to remove the cushion.
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Aledo Rehabilitation and Health Care Center? Contact the Illinois nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Mercer County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Aledo.
Our legal team never charges potential clients to discuss your case through an initial claim consultation. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will not owe us any money unless we have received a monetary recovery on your behalf.
Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home