Addolorata Villa: Food Safety Glove Violations - IL
Federal inspectors who arrived at Addolorata Villa on January 16 found the facility wasn't following it.
The citation, recorded under F021, documents that staff failed to comply with the facility's own infection control requirements in the kitchen. The inspection report does not describe a gray area or an ambiguous standard. It describes a written policy the facility itself authored and a practice that departed from it.
For residents of a nursing home, the kitchen is not an abstraction. It is where every meal originates. The people living at Addolorata Villa depend on staff to handle their food safely — they cannot inspect what arrives on their trays, cannot know whether the hands or gloves that prepared it moved from soiled surfaces to clean ones without a change in between. That trust is what the glove policy was designed to protect.
Cross-contamination in food preparation environments is one of the more direct routes through which harmful bacteria reach vulnerable people. Older adults, particularly those in long-term care, are at elevated risk from foodborne illness. Their immune systems are often compromised, and infections that a younger, healthier person might shake off in a day or two can become serious or prolonged in a nursing home resident.
The facility's own policy acknowledged this. It specified not just that gloves must be worn, but that they must be changed when dirty or ripped, and when transitioning between tasks — precisely the scenario where contamination moves from one surface to another. The policy language inspectors quoted in the citation is detailed. It is not a vague directive to "use good hygiene." It describes the specific moment, moving from handling dirty dishes to handling clean ones, when a glove change is required.
What inspectors found was that the moment wasn't being honored.
Addolorata Villa is a long-term care facility in Wheeling, a northern suburb of Chicago. The January inspection was a standard health survey. The F021 tag covers resident rights and dignity in some contexts, but here it was applied to the sanitation and infection prevention failure documented in the kitchen.
The inspection report does not name individual staff members observed violating the policy, nor does it specify how many employees were involved or over what period the practice was observed. What it does document is that the gap between the written standard and the actual practice was visible enough to inspectors that it warranted a formal citation.
Facilities write infection control policies for a reason. They are not drafted to satisfy a filing requirement and then forgotten. When a facility's own kitchen staff do not follow the glove procedures the facility put in writing, the question is not just whether someone failed to change a glove. The question is what else in the gap between policy and practice has gone unnoticed, and for how long.
The residents eating meals prepared in that kitchen had no way of knowing.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Addolorata Villa from 2025-01-16 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
Additional Resources
Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
Editorial process: Inspection findings are extracted from CMS source documents and synthesized using AI, reviewed for factual accuracy against the original report by our editorial team.
Professional review: All content reviewed by Christopher F. Nesbitt, Sr., NH EMT & BU-trained Paralegal.
Last verified: August 9, 2026 · Our methodology
ADDOLORATA VILLA in WHEELING, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 16, 2025.
Federal inspectors who arrived at Addolorata Villa on January 16 found the facility wasn't following it.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.