Nursing Home News — Page 259

When inspectors arrived on November 24, 2025, they found the entire 100-hall had been without hot water since before summer.

The answer at Bernard Care Center, a 126-bed facility on West Pine Boulevard, was not much.

That gap matters because catheter care, done wrong, is one of the more direct routes to infection for nursing home residents.

The findings came from a complaint inspection conducted December 1, 2025.

The facility had a Skin and Wound Management policy, last reviewed in December 2024.

The inspection at Winning Wheels, a nursing facility at 701 East 3rd Street in Prophetstown, was triggered by a complaint and completed on December 21, 2025.

Inspectors who visited the facility at 7940 Topanga Canyon Blvd.

V13 told inspectors she knew the requirement.

One resident, identified in the inspection report as R5, said she used to shower every other day.

The facility's own policy requires hot food to be held above 135 degrees.

These are the residents of La Bella of Mascoutah, a 33-bed nursing home in southwestern Illinois.

The resident, identified in inspection records only as CR #1, was a hospice patient at Magnolia Crossing Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.