Sunny Acres Nursing Home: Mold, Failing Smoke Detectors - IL
The August 28 inspection, triggered by a complaint, documented water damage, ceiling staining, and dark gray and black speckled areas in the rooms of more than a dozen residents living along what the facility calls Rose Lane. A certified nursing assistant confirmed to inspectors that the air conditioner drips when it runs hard in the heat, and that the smoke detector in one room had been deliberately removed from its mount because condensation had built up behind it. "They had to pull it out to dry," the aide said. "All the rooms on this side drip when it's hot. They all have damage on the ceiling."
The Director of Nursing walked the hallway with inspectors on the morning of August 27 and confirmed that every room along Rose Lane had tan stains surrounding the air vents on the ceilings. She said the maintenance supervisor had been trying to reach corporate to find a solution. "It's been an issue for close to a month," she said. "When it is hot, the vents will drip onto the floor."
The maintenance supervisor confirmed he had open work orders for water dripping in the Rose Lane rooms. His explanation for the source: fans in the ceiling were pulling warm air from outside, where it was meeting cool air inside and creating moisture. He said a vent directly above one resident's bed was likely pushing moisture through to the other side of the building. Above that resident's bed, inspectors documented gray scattered areas on both the wallpaper and the ceiling. On that same resident's ceiling, there was a large black speckled area.
The maintenance supervisor said he had been in contact with the corporate president of maintenance for about a month regarding the moisture around the air vents. Nothing had been finalized to fix it.
The facility's own room roster, provided by the administrator in training during the inspection, listed residents in rooms along Rose Lane. Inspectors identified at least a dozen residents living in the affected hallway, including those whose rooms had the most visible damage and the disconnected smoke detector.
Dark gray speckled areas appeared around the smoke detectors in two rooms. A third room had a dark black speckled area on the ceiling. The inspection report noted tan staining surrounding air vents throughout the hallway. The Director of Nursing said the damage "appears to be from water or moisture in the ceiling."
What the inspection does not document is any completed repair, any plan with a timeline, or any temporary fix beyond the fans that the maintenance supervisor said had been running constantly in the ceiling — the same fans, by his own account, that were drawing in warm air and making the moisture problem worse.
The smoke detector that had been pulled from the wall and left dangling was in a room where someone lives. So was the black speckled ceiling. So were all the others, the whole length of Rose Lane, dripping when the air conditioner runs, staining the ceilings above the beds, while the maintenance supervisor waited to hear back from corporate.
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SUNNY ACRES NURSING HOME in PETERSBURG, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 28, 2025.
"They had to pull it out to dry," the aide said.
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