Arcadia Care Watseka: Broken Bed Ignored After Fall - IL
The footboard had a seven-inch section of jagged, sharp-edged plastic. Her bed was pushed against the wall unit, leaving roughly twelve inches of space on the side she used to get up and walk to the bathroom. She told nursing staff about it. She told anyone who would listen. She said she mentioned it at least a dozen times.
Then she fell. She got a skin tear.
By the time inspectors arrived on April 28, the Director of Nursing, who had conducted the fall investigation, confirmed she had never looked at the footboard during that assessment. She leaned down, ran her hand along the plastic edge, and said the jagged footboard was most likely what caused the skin tear, and the narrow path was most likely why the resident fell. "I am not sure why that did not happen," she said, referring to the room rearrangement that had been identified as the fix weeks earlier.
The resident was seated on the side of her bed when the Director of Nursing walked in. She told her to go ahead and look at the sharp edges, to run her hand down the edge. "That is terribly sharp," she said. When the director promised to get the room rearranged and find her a different bed, the resident asked: "Can I hold you to that, since you're a manager?"
The Regional Administrator told inspectors that the broken bed had been discussed in morning meetings. The Maintenance Director knew about it. A work order, however, was never entered into the system. "I checked yesterday and could not find the work order in our system," the administrator said. The Maintenance Director was off and unavailable the day inspectors came.
The resident had been there less than a month when she fell.
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ARCADIA CARE WATSEKA in WATSEKA, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on April 29, 2026.
The footboard had a seven-inch section of jagged, sharp-edged plastic.
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