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This long-term care home is a 47-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Prairie City and Mcdonough County, Illinois. The "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
825 E Main Street
Prairie City, Illinois 61470
(309) 775-3313
Prairie City Rehabilitation Health Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Prairie City 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 $20,668 for substandard care
The investigators for the state of Illinois and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal responsibility of penalizing any facility that has violated rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. These penalties often include monetary fines and denying payment of Medicare services.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Prairie City Rehabilitation Health Care Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $13,448 fine on May 04, 2017, and a $7,220 fine on February 14, 2017, for a total of $20,668.
This nursing facility received nine complaints and self-reported four 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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The state of Illinois and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all deficiencies, citations, and violations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to prevent physical abuse for [one resident] reviewed for abuse. This [deficient practice resulted in a resident] receiving lacerations to the top of the forehead and left forehead, multiple bruises to the face, and multiple open bite marks to [the resident’s] right hand.”
The investigators observed a resident just before noon on May 7, 2018, “sitting in the dining room for lunch.” The resident “has a laceration to his forehead, bruising, and scabs to his face/cheeks/eyes, and several scabbed areas to his right hand.”
A review of the resident’s SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) dated April 26, 2018, signed by a Registered Nurse (RN) documented that the resident “was involved in a physical altercation with [another resident] [and was] sent to the local emergency room for evaluation.”
A subsequent nursing note indicated that the resident came back from the local emergency room with “ten bite marks to the right hand, bruising to the right side of the face [that was] purple in color.” The top of the resident’s head had lacerations that were 7.0 mm in length and 1.0 mm wide with “a small bump in the middle of the laceration to the head.”
A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) stated that “[an RN] and I heard a noise by [the resident’s] room, we tried to open the door, but could only crack it.” At that time, “[one resident] was on top of [the other resident] blocking the door. We entered through the other door and pulled [one resident off of the other resident].”
The CNA stated that they were “at the nurse’s desk and heard a thump at [the resident’s] room.” The CNA “saw blood all over [one resident].”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Prairie City 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 Mcdonough County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Prairie City.
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Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home