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This long-term care home is a 50-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Rochelle and Ogle County, Illinois. The "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
900 North 3rd Street
Rochelle, Illinois 61068
(815) 562-4111
Rochelle Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Rochelle 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.
Both the state of Illinois and federal agencies penalize nursing homes by denying reimbursement payments from Medicare or imposing monetary fines anytime the facility is cited for a serious violation of established regulations and rules that harm or could harm residents.
This nursing facility received two 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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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 one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure [a difficult resident’s] behaviors were monitored, and [the resident] remained free of physical abuse.”
The investigation involved a review of evidence and a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) stated: “I was working the day shift, and it was after lunch, and I was trying to assist residents out of the dining room.” The resident “was in the doorway of his room, yelling loudly and repetitively ‘CNA, CNA.’ I know that [the resident] likes to go to the bathroom after lunch, so I went to his room and assisted him to the bathroom with his walker.”
The CNA stated, “I gave him his oxygen, the whole time he was yelling. I think he was mad; something about [the shower aide] was not giving him a shower yet.” The resident “was yelling loudly how awful we (the staff) are and then started yelling at me. He told me I was a worthless piece of s**t.”
The Certified Nursing Assistant stated that “on instinct, I turned around and struck him across the face. I told them I was going to get someone else and he told me, ‘I hope you hit me harder next time.’ I went to get [another CNA] and told her I could not care for [a resident] anymore.”
The CNA stated, “I was so angry with him. I was stressed and lost my temper with him. He was yelling repeatedly. [The resident] across the hall was yelling at [the resident] to shut up. It was chaotic; everyone was disturbed. I was doing the best I could to get everything done. It is yelling at me [that] brought up feelings of when in my old relationship, my ex-husband called me a dumb b***h and everything else. It brought back old feelings.”
The Certified Nursing Assistant stated that “apparently [the resident] did not report the incident to [the Administrator] that day, as I did not hear anything further.”
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Rochelle 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 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 Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home