La Bella of Edwardsville: Sanitation Failures Found - IL
That is what inspectors documented at La Bella of Edwardsville, a nursing home on Center Grove Road, during a complaint inspection completed November 6, 2025.
The deficiency, cited under the federal tag governing resident environment and quality of life, was classified as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm. Inspectors noted that some residents were affected.
What the inspection captured was not a single lapse on a single day. The findings were framed around a cleaning checklist, a list of 27 tasks that staff were expected to perform in resident rooms. The violations centered on what was not getting done: wheelchairs left uncleaned, curtains left uninspected, and a collection of high-touch surfaces, the refrigerator handle, the phone, the remote, the call light, left without disinfection.
Call lights are among the most frequently touched objects in any nursing home room. Residents press them when they are in pain, when they need to be repositioned, when they cannot reach something, when they are frightened. Aides press them to cancel the alert. They are touched dozens of times a day, by multiple people, in rooms where residents already have compromised immune systems and limited ability to fight off infection. The inspection report does not say how long these surfaces had gone without being cleaned. It does not need to.
Curtains in nursing home rooms serve as privacy dividers during care. They are pulled across by staff and residents throughout the day, gathered in hands, brushed against bodies, and they absorb whatever is in the air and on the surfaces around them. The inspection found staff were not checking them for spills or damage and were not alerting management when they needed to be replaced.
La Bella of Edwardsville is licensed to serve elderly residents, many of whom spend the majority of their hours inside a single room. That room, and everything in it, is their environment. A wheelchair is not incidental equipment for many of them. It is how they move through the world, how they get to meals, how they get to activities, how they get outside. An uncleaned wheelchair is not a minor oversight for someone who sits in it for hours each day.
The facility's plan of correction was not included in the portion of the inspection record provided. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notes on the form itself that anyone seeking information on how the nursing home intends to fix the problem should contact the facility or the state survey agency directly.
The deficiency was the product of a complaint inspection, meaning someone, a resident, a family member, a staff member, contacted authorities with a concern before inspectors arrived. The record does not identify who filed the complaint or what specifically prompted it.
What it does record is what inspectors found when they got there: a cleaning protocol that existed on paper, numbered item by item, all the way to 27 tasks, and a gap between that list and what was actually happening in the rooms where residents live.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for La Bella of Edwardsville from 2025-11-06 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
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LA BELLA OF EDWARDSVILLE in EDWARDSVILLE, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 6, 2025.
That is what inspectors documented at La Bella of Edwardsville, a nursing home on Center Grove Road, during a complaint inspection completed November 6, 2025.
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.