Wentworth Rehab: Resident Funds Mishandled - Chicago, IL
Federal inspectors cited Wentworth Rehab & Health Care Center following a complaint inspection completed September 25, 2025, finding the facility had failed to properly safeguard the personal funds of at least three residents.
The most detailed case involved a resident identified in inspection records as R8. The facility served as R8's representative payee for Social Security benefits, receiving his check of one thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars each month. But a family member, identified as V8, had separately been collecting R8's pension check, keeping sixty dollars for herself, and forwarding only the remainder to the facility by money order.
The facility's director of financial services, identified as V21, told inspectors she was aware this had been happening. She said she had since learned, from a third-party auditing company hired by Social Security, that representative payees are required to handle all beneficiary funds directly. Family members and powers of attorney are not acceptable substitutes. V21 told inspectors she recognized the previous arrangement was incorrect and would follow Social Security's guidelines going forward. She said both the family member and R8 had been notified.
The inspection report does not say how long the arrangement had been in place.
Two other residents described a different problem: they simply weren't getting their money.
On September 22, a resident identified as R9 told inspectors she had not received her trust fund money that month and did not know how much she was supposed to receive. A facility staff member later explained that R9's family serves as her representative payee and that R9 was aware of this arrangement. R9's most recent cognitive assessment, completed about a month before the inspection, gave her a Brief Interview for Mental Status score of 6, a score the assessment categorizes as severely impaired cognition.
That same afternoon, a resident identified as R10 told inspectors he had not received any trust fund money and said he would appreciate it if he did. R10 also mentioned his daughter had previously been his power of attorney, but that he is now married and had brought new power of attorney documents to the facility that day. His cognitive assessment from early September also returned a score of 6, which the instrument categorizes as moderately impaired cognition.
Staff told inspectors that R10 signs for his daughter to receive his sixty dollars in personal funds each month. Records show a family member withdrew two hundred dollars from R10's trust fund account on August 26, and a separate sixty-dollar withdrawal was documented on September 11. R10 told inspectors on September 22 that he had not received any money.
The facility's own resident funds policy, dated January 2009, states that its primary purpose is to establish uniform guidelines for the protection of personal funds managed on behalf of residents.
The citation was classified as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and inspectors noted it affected a small number of residents. It was issued under F0571, which covers nursing home obligations to manage resident finances honestly and in the residents' interest.
What the records don't resolve is straightforward: R10 said he had received nothing. The withdrawal records show money left his account. Nobody in the inspection report explains where it went.
R9, assessed as severely cognitively impaired, said she didn't know what she was supposed to be receiving. The staff explanation, that her family handles it and she knows this, sits uneasily against that assessment score.
For R8, the arrangement that a third-party auditor had to flag as improper had apparently been running long enough that the facility considered it routine. The director of financial services didn't describe it as something she'd just discovered. She described it as something she now recognized was wrong.
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WENTWORTH REHAB & HCC in CHICAGO, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 25, 2025.
The most detailed case involved a resident identified in inspection records as R8.
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.