La Bella of Morrison: Discharge Planning Failures - IL
That is what inspectors found at La Bella of Morrison on September 16, 2025, when they arrived on a complaint inspection and began reviewing discharge planning for residents who wanted to leave.
The man, identified in inspection records as Resident 2, had a list of serious diagnoses: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, hypothyroidism, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, aortic stenosis, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and atherosclerotic heart disease. He wanted to go home. His physician orders for September 2025 showed nothing, no discharge order, no plan, no documented steps toward getting him out.
The facility's own administrator and director of nursing, when asked about it that afternoon, acknowledged that residents should have discharge plans in place. They said the facility had not had a medical record for three weeks. They said Resident 2 was waiting for an order.
Nobody had written one.
The second resident, identified as Resident 3, had been in the facility since at least late August. She told inspectors she did not know how long she would be there. She had an injured right shoulder. She had lung cancer and was preparing to receive treatments. She also had chronic gastric cancer, emphysema, a personal history of pulmonary embolism, an anxiety disorder, and two parasitic conditions, ocular myiasis and aural myiasis, infections involving fly larvae in the eye and ear.
She told inspectors she didn't know what her plan was. Just that she was going to be treated for cancer.
Her MDS assessment, completed before the inspection, recorded under the section on discharge that her overall goal was to return to the community. Her care plan, dated August 29, 2025, contained no information or plan related to discharge. Nothing about what getting back to the community would require, what steps were underway, or who had spoken with her about it.
The facility's own transfer and discharge policy, updated in November 2024, described exactly what was supposed to exist: a comprehensive, person-centered care plan containing the resident's goals for admission and desired outcomes aligned with discharge, supported by documentation of the resident's or representative's verbal or written notice of intent to leave, a discharge plan, and documented discussions with the resident or their representative.
None of that existed for either resident.
Inspectors cited the facility under F0627, which covers discharge planning requirements. The level of harm was rated as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and the violation was found to affect a few residents.
What that rating does not capture is what it looks like from inside the room. A woman with lung cancer and gastric cancer, preparing for treatment, sitting in a facility that had written down her goal as returning to the community and then written nothing else. No plan. No documented conversation. No next step.
She didn't know what her plan was.
The administrator and director of nursing said the right thing when inspectors asked: residents should have discharge plans. They knew the policy. The policy was clear. And for at least two residents, one of them medically complex and waiting on a single order, the other facing cancer treatment with no roadmap home, the paperwork that was supposed to exist simply did not.
Resident 2 was still waiting.
Full Inspection Report
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La Bella of Morrison in MORRISON, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 16, 2025.
His physician orders for September 2025 showed nothing, no discharge order, no plan, no documented steps toward getting him out.
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