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This long-term care home is a "for-profit" 60-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Champaign and Champaign County, Illinois. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
1315B Curt Drive
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 352-5707
Illini Heritage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Illini Heritage 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 an 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.
The nursing home received fourteen 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 federal government and Illinois Department of Public Health website update comprehensive information containing historical details of all citations and violations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two 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 investigate falls, provide a safe transfer to prevent a fall, and Care Plan a post-fall targeted intervention for [one resident] reviewed for falls.” The investigation involved a moderately, cognitively impaired resident who “requires extensive physical staff assistance with transfers.”
A review of the resident’s Fall Risk Assessment documented in March and May 2018, indicates that the resident “is at high risk for falls.” A report indicates that two Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) used a mechanical lift on the resident to transfer her. While the resident was in Medicare, they “proceeded to slide out of the mechanical lift stand sling and sit down.” The CNA stated “likely, the chair was in place. I and the other CNA left the room. Not even ten minutes later, I heard [the resident’s] alarm.”
The CNA stated they entered the resident’s room to find the resident “in between the bathroom door with her pants at her ankles and her incontinence brief ripped.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies dated June 23, 2017, the facility “failed to ensure a safe transfer of [a resident] while using a mechanical lift.” This investigation involved a moderately, cognitively impaired resident who “was totally dependent and needing two-plus persons physical assist during transfers.” The documentation shows that the resident has “impairment on both upper and lower extremities bilaterally.”
The resident’s report and SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) indicated that the resident had been transferred by unidentified students in the Certified Nursing Assistant program. The “students were using a mechanical lift and [the resident] slid out of the sling and was assisted to the floor by the students.”
The documentation indicates that the “students did not ask the facility CNAs for help in the transfer of [the resident], nor was the student’s instructor present during the transfer.” The documentation indicates that the students were re-educated that “they need staff supervision or instructor supervision for mechanical lift transfers.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Illini Heritage 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. We represent Champaign County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Champaign.
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Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home