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The Illinois Department of Health has cited and fined Mattoon Rehab & Health Care Center when, according to state investigators and facility records, a resident’s leg wound dressings went unchanged for more than two weeks, and her wounds deteriorated significantly with copious drainage and odor. The resident was hospitalized for cellulitis in both legs, a […]

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The Illinois Department of Health has cited and fined Landmark of Oak Lawn Rehab and Nursing Center when, according to state investigators and facility records, a resident admitted to the facility with no documented wounds later developed a severe pressure wound on her sacrum and was hospitalized weeks later with sepsis, an unstageable decubitus ulcer, […]

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The Illinois Department of Health has cited and fined Heartland Senior Living in Neoga, Illinois when a resident’s bathroom call light was not promptly answered while one staff member stood at the nurses’ station and was not paying attention to the call light panel and another assumed someone else would respond. The resident, who had […]

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The Illinois Department of Health has cited and fined Goldwater Care Peoria Heights in Peoria Heights, Illinois when the facility failed to identify, assess, treat, and prevent the worsening of pressure ulcers for two bedbound residents — one who developed a Stage 4 pressure wound under the facility’s care that progressed to suspected bone infection, […]

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The Illinois Department of Health has cited and fined Fair Oaks Health Care Center in Crystal Lake, Illinois when two certified nursing aides improperly attached a mechanical lift sling, causing the sling to come loose mid-transfer and the resident to fall to the floor, sustaining a subdural hematoma — a bleed on the brain — […]

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