McLean County Nursing Home: Missing Wallet, Fraud Charges - IL
The resident, identified in inspection records as R89, was admitted to McLean County Nursing Home on May 23, 2025. On that same day, a social services assistant named V17 was processing two admissions at once, R89 and another resident, R91. V17 documented on R89's property inventory that R89 had a wallet containing cards and cash. On R91's inventory, V17 noted that R91 did not have a wallet.
More than five weeks passed.
On June 29, R89's son brought in a credit card statement. R89 looked it over and spotted five charges that didn't add up. The next morning, at 8:40 a.m. on June 30, R89 went to the Social Service Director, V18, and asked to see the wallet, specifically to confirm the credit card was still in it.
V18 couldn't find the wallet. Or the keys R89 had also checked in. V18 searched the social services office, checked the front safe, and went through R89's room with R89 present. Nothing.
V18 immediately notified the administrator, V1. R89 called the bank. The bank confirmed five charges in June totaling $227.19, all at a local gas station and convenience store.
The administrator described R89 as "understandably very anxious."
On July 2, the administrator and the social services director sat down with V17 to ask a straightforward question: if R89 didn't have a wallet when admitted, why did the inventory say otherwise?
V17's answer was that it was a clerical mistake. V17 had been doing two admissions simultaneously and accidentally typed the wallet information into R89's file instead of R91's. V17 said V17 had forgotten to delete the entry after finishing R91's paperwork.
The administrator noted a problem with that explanation. V1 told inspectors that on May 23, there were no other residents admitted to the facility. Only R89 and R91.
That matters because R91's inventory, completed the same day by the same person, correctly showed that R91 did not have a wallet. R89's inventory, also completed that day, showed that R89 did. The two documents don't reflect a simple mix-up between two files. They reflect opposite conclusions reached about the same question, wallet or no wallet, for two different people, on the same afternoon.
When inspectors arrived in August, V17 confirmed the sequence directly: V17 documented R89 as having a wallet with cards and cash, and V17 confirmed that this was in error. V17 said the entry should have been deleted.
The wallet was never found. The keys were never found. The police were called on June 30, the same day the wallet was reported missing.
By the time inspectors interviewed everyone involved, the case was already six weeks old. The investigation had been initiated by the facility in early July. What it produced, at least as reflected in the inspection record, was V17's account that a data entry error had simply erased any official record that R89 ever had a wallet to begin with.
The five charges at the gas station totaled $227.19. R89 had described the wallet to V18 as black with a hole in it, containing about $200 in cash, credit cards, and keys. The credit card charges appeared in June, after admission, while R89 was a resident.
The inspection was conducted on August 13, 2025, following a complaint. Inspectors cited the facility under F0602, which covers misappropriation of resident property and exploitation, and classified the level of harm as minimal harm or potential for actual harm.
R89's son had brought the credit card statement in on a Sunday. His father noticed the charges the same day. The next morning, R89 went looking for the wallet.
It was already gone.
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MCLEAN COUNTY NURSING HOME in NORMAL, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 13, 2025.
The resident, identified in inspection records as R89, was admitted to McLean County Nursing Home on May 23, 2025.
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