Abbington Village Nursing: Call Light Kept From Resident - IL
The resident, identified in inspection records only as R9, is a woman admitted to the facility in November 2023. Her diagnoses include Alzheimer's disease, vertigo, difficulty in walking, and lack of coordination. Her call light was not next to her.
A staff member identified as V2 told inspectors that R9's call light should have been beside her. V2 acknowledged that while R9 could walk to reach it, doing so was not advisable given her unsteady gait. The concern was plain: a woman who struggles to walk, who has vertigo, who has coordination problems, was expected to get up and cross a room to ask for help.
She didn't have another option.
Abbington Village's own policy, received by inspectors the day before the survey concluded, states that call lights must be within easy reach of residents in bed or confined to a chair, and that the system should remain accessible even to a resident lying on the floor. The policy exists because the alternative, a resident with no way to summon help, is the kind of situation the policy was written to prevent.
That situation is what inspectors found.
The deficiency was cited at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, meaning inspectors determined R9 had not yet been injured as a result. That finding reflects what was documented, not what could have happened on any given night when a woman with Alzheimer's and vertigo needed assistance and had no way to ask for it.
Inspectors noted the violation affected some residents, not just R9, though the report details center on her case.
The inspection was a complaint survey, meaning someone contacted regulators about conditions at the facility before inspectors arrived on September 11, 2025. Complaint surveys are initiated when concerns are reported, and they focus on the specific allegations raised. What inspectors found when they got there matched what the complaint described.
Abbington Village Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is located at 31 West Central in Roselle, a suburb about 30 miles northwest of Chicago. The facility's CMS identification number is 146065.
A call light is not complicated equipment. It is a button on a cord. Its entire purpose is to give a person who cannot easily get up, or who should not get up alone, a way to tell someone they need help. For a resident with Alzheimer's, the ability to remember where the call light is, or to recognize that she needs to press it, or to navigate safely to a location where it has been left, cannot be assumed. For a resident with vertigo and coordination problems, the walk itself is the hazard.
V2 understood this. The facility's own written policy reflected it. The call light was not there anyway.
The inspection report does not say how long the call light had been out of R9's reach, or how many times she may have needed help during that period. It does not say whether she fell trying to reach it, or whether she simply went without. Those details are not in the record. What is in the record is that when inspectors arrived, the call light was not where it was supposed to be, a staff member confirmed it should have been closer, and the reason it mattered, R9's specific diagnoses and the risks they create, was documented in her own chart.
Full Inspection Report
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Abbington Vlge Nrsg & Rhb Ctr in ROSELLE, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 11, 2025.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as R9, is a woman admitted to the facility in November 2023.
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.