Aperion Care Lakeshore: Bedbug Infestation Hits Residents - IL
The pest control company, identified in inspection records as V11, visited the facility on December 11, 2025. Their service report noted that one room was full of plastic bags and clutter and needed to be treated for bedbugs. In that room and others, technicians found both dead and live bedbugs.
The rooms occupied by residents identified in the inspection report as R3 through R10 all appeared on the pest control company's report.
The relocations happened in waves. R4 and R5 were moved on September 10, 2025, more than three months before the December inspection. R9 and R10 were moved on December 10, the day before the pest control visit. R6, R7, and R8 were moved on December 11, the same day the pest control company came through and documented what it found.
That September relocation date stands out. Two residents were moved because of bedbugs in early fall, and the problem was still showing up in pest control reports and inspector findings three months later.
Federal inspectors who reviewed the situation noted that residents are uncomfortable when bitten by bedbugs, and that they are inconvenienced when they cannot access their personal belongings because of an infestation. Those findings were recorded under a citation for the facility's failure to maintain a safe, clean, and comfortable environment. The level of harm was listed as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and the citation noted that some residents were affected.
The facility's own pest control policy, dated September 1, 2022, assigned the Environmental Services Director responsibility for coordinating pest control. The policy called for pest control to be conducted on a regular and as-needed basis, directed employees to promptly report all pest sightings to their department heads, and stated that the facility must be kept in condition to prevent insects and rodents from finding harborage or feeding.
What the policy described and what the pest control report documented are not the same picture. A room described as full of plastic bags and clutter, with both live and dead bedbugs, is not a room that had been maintained to prevent insects from finding harborage. And a problem that sent two residents to new rooms in September, only to resurface badly enough to displace five more residents in December, is not a problem that was resolved on a regular and as-needed basis.
The inspection was conducted on December 19, 2025, eight days after the pest control visit and the same week the last group of residents was relocated.
The inspection report does not say how long the infestation had been present before September, whether R3 was relocated or remained in place, or what condition the rooms were in when residents returned to them, if they did. It does not say whether any resident reported being bitten, or how long any resident lived alongside the infestation before being moved.
What it says is that when the pest control company came, they found clutter, and they found bugs, alive and dead, in rooms where nursing home residents had been sleeping.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Aperion Care Lakeshore from 2025-12-19 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.
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APERION CARE LAKESHORE in CHICAGO, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on December 19, 2025.
The pest control company, identified in inspection records as V11, visited the facility on December 11, 2025.
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