ARC at Hickory Point: Black Mold in Resident Shower - IL
Two hours later, the facility's own administrator said she had searched three months of records and couldn't find a single work order for it.
Inspectors visited ARC at Hickory Point on September 18, 2025, responding to a complaint. What they found in a private bathroom shared by two residents was a slimy, fuzzy black material with the appearance of black mold in two distinct areas: a patch roughly five inches by a half inch along the grout line above the shower head, and a larger growth approximately twelve inches by six inches where the ceiling meets the drywall above the shower.
The housekeeper, identified in the report as V5, spoke with inspectors at 9:05 that morning. Her account was straightforward. She knew about the mold. She said she had reported it. She believed maintenance had been told.
At 9:15 a.m., the facility's administrator and a corporate administrator came to the bathroom and looked at it themselves. The corporate administrator, identified as V7, acknowledged what was in front of them. "This will be taken care of immediately," V7 said. "We will close off the bathroom until it can be fixed."
Then, at 11:00 a.m., the administrator, V1, came back to inspectors with a different piece of information. She had gone looking for the work order the housekeeper described. She had reviewed three months of records. "I can't see where there has been a work order for this," she said.
That gap, between what the housekeeper believed had been reported and what the administrator could actually find in the records, sat at the center of the inspection's findings. Either the work order was submitted and never logged, never acted on, and never followed up on, or it was never submitted at all. The inspection report does not resolve which. What it does establish is that two residents had been living with this growth in their bathroom for long enough that a housekeeper described it as having been there "quite a while," and that no documented corrective action had occurred.
The deficiency was cited under the federal standard requiring nursing homes to maintain resident areas in clean and comfortable condition. Inspectors reviewed four residents for environment out of a total sample of seven, and found the violation affected two of them, the residents sharing the room with the contaminated bathroom.
The harm level was classified as minimal harm or potential for actual harm. That classification reflects the regulatory framework's assessment, not a judgment that two residents living with mold growth in their only shower was inconsequential. For the residents using that bathroom, the question of when the mold arrived, how long it had been growing, and whether anyone had genuinely tried to address it before an inspector walked in were not abstract.
The corporate administrator's response once inspectors were present was immediate. Close the bathroom. Fix it now. But that urgency arrived on the morning a complaint inspection was underway, not during the stretch of weeks or months the housekeeper was describing when she said the black stuff had been there "quite a while."
The facility has not publicly commented beyond what administrators stated to inspectors during the visit.
Full Inspection Report
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ARC AT HICKORY POINT in FORSYTH, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 18, 2025.
Two hours later, the facility's own administrator said she had searched three months of records and couldn't find a single work order for it.
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