Relocating an elderly loved one into a nursing facility is often the toughest decision a family can make. Many times, the family will perform extensive research in the hopes of finding the most comfortable and safest environment. Unfortunately, the incident rate involving mistreatment occurring in nursing homes throughout Illinois has risen significantly over the last few years.
If your loved one was harmed while living in a Whiteside County nursing facility, contact the Illinois nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation from recovering your damages.
This center is a 74-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of Morrison and Whiteside County, Illinois. The "for-profit" long-term care home is located at:
500 North Jackson Street
Morrison, Illinois 61270
(815) 772-7288
Pleasant View Rehabilitation Health Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Pleasant View Rehabilitation 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.
Fined $28,841 for substandard care
Federal agencies and the State of Illinois have a legal responsibility for monitoring every nursing facility. If serious violations are identified, the government can impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if the resident was harmed or could have been harmed by the deficiency.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Pleasant View Rehabilitation Health Care Center for $28,841 on February 28, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received eight complaints and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Illinois Adult Protective Services Website.
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To be fully informed on the level of care nursing homes provide, families routinely research Medicare.gov and the Illinois Department of Public Health website database systems for a complete list of deficiencies, violations, and citations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and five out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to keep [a resident] free from abuse.” A review of the resident’s Behavior Care Plan shows that the resident “becomes combative during shower times and is resistant to care. The Care Plan shows [the resident] is at risk for abuse due to his combative nature.”
Additional documentation and Cognitive Care Plan showed that resident “is non-verbal and unable to follow directions most of the time.” The resident “requires the limited assist of one staff for walking in his room and the corridor and did not use any assistive devices such as a wheelchair or walker.”
The documentation shows that the resident “had an episode of incontinence one morning when two Certified Nursing Aides provided incontinence care. Both CNAs placed [the resident] into a mechanical lift sling to lift them off the bed.” The resident “began pushing his feet off the bed and kicking at the bed, when [a CNA slapped the resident’s] leg.”
The other CNA said that she then lowered the resident “into a shower chair and proceeded to give them a shower.” The CNA “said it was her idea to use a mechanical lift, even though [a resident] does not have it care planned.” The CNA stated that the resident “is usually combative and would not stand.”
The investigators interviewed a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who said that she had been working the night shift on that date and “she was never informed of any incident of abuse.” The LPN stated that “if she had been notified, she would have immediately called the Administrator and [the abusive CNA] would have been escorted off the grounds.”
The LPN said that “she was unsure why [both CNAs] would have been using a mechanical lift for [a resident] when he is able to walk on his own.”
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Pleasant View Rehabilitation 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 Whiteside County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Morrison.
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Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home