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This long-term care home is a 136-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Toulon and Stark County, Illinois. The "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
Highway Seventeen East
Toulon, Illinois 61483
(309) 286-2631
Toulon Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Toulon 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.
Illinois and the federal government have the legal obligation to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if the home has violated established nursing home regulations and rules. In severe cases, the nursing facility will receive multiple penalties if investigators find the violations are severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
The nursing home received one complaint over the last thirty-six months 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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Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites including the Illinois Department of Public Health and Medicare.gov.
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 two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to obtain a Physician’s order with parameters for release and failed to apply restraint to treat a medical reason.” The nursing home “also failed to have a reduction plan in place for the use of restraint for [two residents].”
The state investigators reviewed the resident’s Physician Order Sheet that ordered a “self-releasing belt in a wheelchair as needed for repositioning.” The resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment documented under restraints “to use a trunk restraint daily.”
The investigators observed the resident “seated in a high back wheelchair in the hallway outside [their room]. A buckled, soft waist restraint was secured around [the resident’s] waist, with the ends knotted behind [the resident’s] chair. At that time, when requested by [a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), the resident] was unable to unbuckle restraints and remove it.”
The Care Pain Coordinator verified that the resident “did not have a Physician’s order with parameters for release, a medical reason to justify the use of physical restraints or a reduction plan in place for [the resident’s] restraints.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies, the facility “failed to identify an enclosed wheeled walker as a restraint for [one resident] and the use of the bed against the wall and a body pillow under the fitted sheet as a restraint for [another resident].”
The survey team observed the resident lying in bed with “the bed against the wall on the left side and a body pillow under the fitted sheet on the right side.” The following morning, the same resident “was lying in bed with the same pillow set up, acting as a restraint.”
A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) stated that “the body pillow and bed against the wall are to prevent [the resident] from falling out of bed because [the resident] is very fidgety.” However, the Director of Nursing confirmed that the resident “is not able to remove the body pillow.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Toulon 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 Stark County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Toulon.
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Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home