Parc Joliet: Nursing Notes Struck From Records - IL
The incident at Parc Joliet, a nursing facility at 222 North Hammes, came to light during a complaint inspection completed August 28, 2025. What inspectors found was not a clerical accident. It was a chain of decisions, starting with a corporate consultant, that ended with a licensed nurse's clinical record wiped from the file.
The sequence began on July 28, 2025, when a resident identified in inspection records as R4 was involved in an incident. A nurse, identified as V8, documented what she observed and assessed. Her notes went into the electronic medical record. The incident was logged in the facility's risk management system as a fall.
Then a corporate consultant got involved.
According to the restorative nurse, identified as V18, the corporate consultant instructed staff to strike out the incident report and label it as inaccurate documentation. The reason: the resident had been intentionally lowered to the ground, and the consultant did not consider that a fall. V18 said she followed those instructions and struck out the risk management report in the electronic system.
What V18 said she did not know was that striking out the risk management entry would also erase V8's nursing progress notes, pulling them from the record and marking them as incorrect.
V8 found out during her interview with inspectors at 6:09 PM on August 26, 2025. Inspectors read each struck-out entry back to her. Her response was direct. "I wrote very detailed notes of what I saw and what I assessed," she told inspectors. "My notes are accurate. I did not go into the EMR and strike out my notes and label them as incorrect documentation. My documentation is accurate as to what happened."
She had not touched her own notes. Someone else's action had erased them.
The administrator, identified as V1, and the Director of Nursing, identified as V2, acknowledged the problem the following morning. Their explanation was that V8's documentation had been inadvertently struck out when changes were made to the risk management report. The administrator's response to what had happened to a nurse's clinical record was this: the notes are "her story," and staff would "have to go back in and figure out a way to rewrite them."
Rewrite them.
V18, for her part, said she had acted on direct instruction from the corporate consultant and had only intended to strike out the risk management entry. "I did not realize by striking out the risk management documentation, that the nurse's documentation would be struck out and marked as incorrect documentation as well," she told inspectors. "That seems like an issue when the nursing documentation gets struck out. I was not aware the progress notes were struck out."
The facility's own medical record policy, dated June 2025, states that progress notes must ensure an ongoing resident record is maintained, including documentation of significant changes in a resident's condition, recorded upon occurrence by the staff person observing the change. The policy describes the medical record as a medium of communication among health care professionals involved in a resident's care.
V8's notes were that communication. They recorded what a licensed nurse observed on the day a resident was lowered to the ground. They were accurate, by her account. They were complete, by her account. And then, on instruction from a corporate consultant who was not present when the incident occurred, they were gone, labeled as incorrect, without the nurse who wrote them knowing it had happened.
The administrator's plan, as stated to inspectors, was to figure out a way to rewrite them.
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 incident at Parc Joliet, a nursing facility at 222 North Hammes, came to light during a complaint inspection completed August 28, 2025.
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