Alden Lakeland: Daily Care Assistance Failures - IL
It was 10:22 a.m. on January 27. The inspector had turned on the call light for Resident 5, who was in bed and wet and said she had been that way for a long time. A licensed practical nurse came in, turned the light off, walked back out, and returned to the nursing station.
At 11:10 a.m., the inspector checked again. Resident 5 was still wet. The nurse had told her she would be back.
When the inspector asked the nurse what the resident had needed, the nurse said she had told an aide, she didn't remember which one, and that she had an admission coming and needed to get report. "Someone will help R5 soon as possible," she said.
A certified nursing assistant who could have helped was off the floor escorting another resident to a medical appointment. She returned at 11:58 a.m. and finally provided incontinence care at 12:15 p.m. Resident 5 had been wet for nearly two hours.
The nursing assistant said there were restorative and wound care aides on the unit who were not assigned to residents and could have gone to the appointment instead of her.
The acting director of nursing, who had taken the job just two weeks earlier on January 13, told the inspector she had not known the aide had been sent out. "For a resident to wait three hours for assistance is not acceptable," she said. She acknowledged that being left wet or soiled for that long could cause infection, skin breakdown, pain, and dignity issues.
She was not the only one saying so. A certified nursing assistant told the inspector there were only two staff on a floor with forty or more residents needing assistance. Staffing had been an issue, the aide said, for over two months. Resident 17 said residents had to wait a long time for help and that the facility needed more aides.
Resident 5 did not say how long she had actually been wet before the inspector found her. Only that it had been a long time.
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ALDEN LAKELAND REHAB & HCC in CHICAGO, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 30, 2026.
The inspector had turned on the call light for Resident 5, who was in bed and wet and said she had been that way for a long time.
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