For many years, nursing home residents throughout the United States have been subjected to neglect and abuse by caregivers, employees, or other residents. Many problems with the nursing home industry involve untrained professionals, short staffing, and a lack of supervision that leads to resident-to-resident assault.
If your loved one was injured while living in an Ogle County nursing facility, contact the Illinois nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal help. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation from recovering your damages.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Rochelle and Ogle County, Illinois. The 74-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
1021 Caron Road
Rochelle, Illinois 61068
(815) 562-4047
Rochelle Gardens Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Rochelle Gardens 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.
Both the federal government and the state of Illinois can impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare of any nursing facility that has been found to have violated the established nursing home rules and regulations.
Over the last three years, Medicare denied payment on April 18, 2018, due to a lack of quality care. This nursing home received seven complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months 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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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Illinois Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
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 two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to keep [the resident] free from mental abuse by [a staff member].” The state investigators reviewed the facility’s Final Incident Report.
The report indicated that a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) “made a video recording of [the resident’s] worsening mental condition using a social media site application on her smartphone.” The CNA “sent a video recording via a social media application to [a family member].”
A Registered Nurse (RN) reported that “her daughter [the family member who received the video recording] received a disappearing video from [the CNA showing the resident] in her room. The facility determined that the allegation of abuse was founded and [the CNA] was terminated from her employment with the facility.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies dated March 7, 2019, the “facility failed to ensure residents are free from physical abuse.” The facility’s Initial Report showed that two residents “were reported to have a physical altercation.”
In this case, the resident “stated they backed out of the phone room in their wheelchair.” The resident stated a second resident “was walking in the hallway.” That resident “yells, ‘Stop calling my family for money and talking to the cops!” The verbally aggressive resident “picked up a walker and swung at me. I put my hands up to block the walker. Part of the walker hit me in the chin. I covered up, and he hit me in the back on my right shoulder.”
The investigators asked the aggressive resident about the incident. That resident stated, “there was a fight. He was mad and could not remember why he was mad. At this time, [the aggressive resident] became agitated and walked away from the surveyor.”
A Registered Nurse (RN) stated “I was in the hallway of the medication cart. [The resident] started yelling down the hall.” Two residents “were near the phone room door.” The aggressive resident “picked up his walker and showed [the other resident].”
The aggressive resident then “dropped the walker, swung with his hands at [the assaulted resident and hit that resident] in the back.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Rochelle Gardens 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 Ogle County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Rochelle.
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Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home