La Bella of Danville: Trust Fund Withheld After Discharge - IL
Two payments of $1,060 each arrived in November and December, direct-deposited into an account at a facility the resident no longer lived in. The money sat there. Then it sat some more. By the time a federal inspector walked in on May 26, 2026, seven months had passed and the family had not seen a cent.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as R4, transferred to a hospital on October 20, 2025. The family notified the facility roughly a month and a half later that R4 had moved from the hospital to a different long-term care facility. That second facility had already begun billing R4's estate. Meanwhile, La Bella's billing statements dated December 20, January 20, and February 20 showed a credit balance of $2,120, sitting there in plain language across three consecutive monthly statements.
Nobody sent a check.
The Business Office Manager, identified in records as V16, told the inspector that she tries to catch these situations early and submits a check request form to the corporate office when they occur. The check request form for R4's $2,120 was dated May 20, 2026, six days before the inspection. V16 confirmed there were no prior check request forms submitted for R4. She confirmed, in the inspector's words, that "this would not be considered timely."
There was also a separate problem. R4's trust fund account, the small personal account nursing homes maintain on behalf of residents for incidentals, still held a balance of $120.22 as of May 1, 2026. V16 acknowledged she had not taken any steps to release that balance to R4's family or estate either.
The family member who spoke with inspectors, identified as V28, laid out the situation on May 20. The facility had received at least two of R4's Social Security monthly benefits after discharge. The subsequent nursing facility had billed R4's estate. And La Bella had not returned the money.
V16's explanation for the delay was that she found out about R4's transfer to the second facility about a month and a half after it happened. But the billing statements told a different story. December 20, January 20, February 20, three months in a row, the credit balance appeared in writing. The facility's own policy, documented in its undated Transactions Involving Resident Funds policy, states that trust fund accounts are to be reconciled quarterly and statements provided to the resident or representative within 30 days after each quarter ends.
The statements went out. The money did not.
V16 described her usual practice to the inspector: when a resident leaves, she tries to send the trust fund balance to wherever the resident is, right away. If the resident has died, the balance goes to the power of attorney or the estate. She said she tries to keep track. In R4's case, none of that happened on any timeline that could be called prompt.
Inspectors rated the violation as causing minimal harm or the potential for actual harm, the lower end of the federal harm scale. R4's Medicaid status is documented in the records. The $2,120 represents two months of Social Security income for a Medicaid recipient, money that belongs to the resident's estate and that the subsequent nursing facility was separately billing the family to recover.
On the morning of the inspection, with the surveyor in the room, V16 reviewed the billing and trust fund statements. She confirmed the credit. She confirmed the trust fund balance. She confirmed no steps had been taken to release the trust fund money. The check request submitted six days earlier, on May 20, listed the payee as the long-term care facility where R4 now lived, not R4's family or estate.
As of the inspection date, May 26, 2026, the $120.22 trust fund balance remained unreleased. The family was still waiting.
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LA BELLA OF DANVILLE in DANVILLE, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 26, 2026.
Two payments of $1,060 each arrived in November and December, direct-deposited into an account at a facility the resident no longer lived in.
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