Parc Joliet: Broken Lift Left on Floor After Injury - IL
Nobody moved it. Nobody put a sign on it.
The broken lift was one of four mechanical lifts inspectors found at the facility during a complaint inspection on August 25, 2025. The visit came after a resident identified in the report only as R4 was involved in an incident with a mechanical lift, a detail the Director of Nursing, referred to in the report as V2, confirmed when she told inspectors she had asked the maintenance worker to inspect all the lifts and label each one following that incident.
He hadn't done it.
The maintenance worker, identified as V13, walked inspectors through the facility's mechanical lifts that morning. Four lifts were found in total, including one rental unit. V13 said he had not inspected the rental lift to verify it was in working order, and he could not say how long the facility had been using it. None of the four lifts carried labels that matched the inspection logs V13 had provided. The logs existed. The lifts existed. They simply had nothing to do with each other.
When inspectors showed those same inspection sheets to the Director of Nursing during a tour later that morning, she could not identify whether any of the lifts currently in use had actually been inspected.
The broken lift was still sitting in the second-floor common area when inspectors walked through with V2 at 11:53 AM, a full hour after V13 had demonstrated to inspectors that its shifter lever wouldn't lock. The user manual for the lift, provided by the facility's administrator and undated, states clearly that the shifter handle must be locked when transferring a resident. The same manual calls for an initial inspection and monthly inspections and adjustments for lifts used in institutional settings.
The facility's own policy on mechanical lifting devices says the equipment shall undergo routine maintenance checks and be accessible to staff around the clock. The policy also says it will be followed at all times, and that failure to comply will result in disciplinary action at management's discretion.
Mechanical lifts are used to move and transfer residents who cannot bear their own weight, a population that includes some of the most physically vulnerable people in any nursing home. When a lift malfunctions mid-transfer, the consequences can be severe. A shifter lever that won't lock is not a minor mechanical inconvenience. It is the mechanism that controls whether a resident suspended in a sling stays suspended.
Inspectors rated the violation at the level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and noted that some residents were affected. The report does not describe the nature of R4's incident or what injuries, if any, resulted.
What it does describe is a maintenance system that had effectively stopped functioning. The inspection logs didn't match the equipment. The rental lift had never been checked. The broken lift was left where any aide coming onto a night shift, unfamiliar with what inspectors had found that morning, could have wheeled it into a resident's room and used it.
The Director of Nursing had identified the problem herself, after R4's incident, and asked for it to be fixed. The fix didn't happen. And when inspectors arrived and documented a broken lift sitting unlabeled in a hallway, the response was the same: it stayed there.
Full Inspection Report
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PARC JOLIET in JOLIET, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 28, 2025.
The broken lift was one of four mechanical lifts inspectors found at the facility during a complaint inspection on August 25, 2025.
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.