Some statistics show that more than one million Americans currently live in nursing homes. Many of these patients are our mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, children, and friends. Families often relocate their loved one into a nursing home, believing that they will receive the best care and improve their quality of life in a safe environment.
Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs in many nursing homes, including those in Clay County. If your loved one was injured or died prematurely while residing in a nursing home, contact the Illinois nursing home affiliate attorneys at (800) 926-7565 now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This nursing home is a Medicare and Medicaid-participating "for-profit" center providing cares and services to residents of Flora and Clay County, Illinois. The 99-certified bed nursing facility is located at:
232 Given Street
Flora, Illinois 62839
(618) 662-8381
Flora Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Flora 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.
The federal government and surveyors in Illinois have a legal duty to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators identify violations of established nursing home regulations and rules. In serious cases, the nursing facility will receive heavy monetary penalties if investigators find the violations are severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
The nursing home received two 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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The state of Illinois and Medicare.com routinely update their comprehensive list of deficiencies online to reflect all violations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues and one out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to provide resident safety related to unsafe smoking and oxygen storage and failed to provide adequate supervision for [one resident] with harmful behaviors toward others.” The investigation involved two residents, “reviewed for smoking, oxygen storage, and supervision.”
The Facility Incident Tracking Log documents that the resident “was involved in physical altercations involving other residents” on three days in 2017. A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) indicated that “these past incidents have mainly been due to [the resident] accidentally running his wheelchair into other residents when trying to go near the patio doors.”
The LPN indicated that “there have been times when this behavior has resulted in a skin tear to [the resident] or another resident.” According to the resident’s Plan of Care, the resident “has no desire to be with groups of people for activities or socialization.”
Documentation shows that the resident has “a history of wandering, propelling his wheelchair backward into people or things, continuously opening exit doors, and becoming physically aggressive with the staff. There are Behavior Tracking Sheets to address each of these behaviors located in the folder kept at the nurse’s station.”
However, a review of some of the Behavior Tracking Sheets revealed “there is no documentation to show that any of these behaviors have occurred in the past two weeks” because “each page is blank.” A Resident Council Action Form addressed the facility’s residents’ concerns that residents are tired of getting run into by the resident and “are afraid they are going to be harmed.”
The facility responded by informing the group that the resident “will be getting a new wheelchair [that will] not let him push backward. This [new wheelchair] will help him [stop] running into others.” However, as of September 11, 2017, the resident “is still hitting people with the wheelchair.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Flora Rehabilitation and Health Care Center? Contact the Illinois network of abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. Our legal team of dedicated attorneys represents Clay County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Flora.
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Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home