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Deficiency Records for Nexus at Alton
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Nexus at Alton. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
View the most recent health deficiencies and inspection results for Nexus at Alton. Stay informed about quality of care issues.
| Deficiency | Type of Deficiency | Deficiency Date | Date Corrected | Resulted from a Complaint? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Health | 2026-02-20 | 2026-02-25 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. | Health | 2026-02-20 | 2026-02-24 | Y |
| Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. | Health | 2026-02-20 | 2026-02-24 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. | Health | 2025-12-29 | 2025-12-30 | Y |
| Keep all essential equipment working safely. | Health | 2025-12-29 | 2025-12-30 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. | Health | 2025-09-30 | 2025-12-30 | Y |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2025-11-19 | 2025-11-20 | Y |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2025-09-30 | 2025-10-01 | Y |
| Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law. | Health | 2025-09-30 | 2025-10-01 | Y |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2025-09-30 | 2025-10-01 | Y |
| Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. | Health | 2025-09-30 | 2025-10-01 | Y |
| Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2025-09-30 | 2025-10-01 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2025-07-25 | 2025-08-04 | Y |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2025-07-25 | 2025-08-04 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2025-07-03 | 2025-08-04 | Y |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2025-06-17 | 2025-06-18 | Y |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2025-05-30 | 2025-06-18 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2025-06-02 | 2025-06-02 | Y |
| Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2025-05-30 | 2025-05-31 | Y |
| Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs. | Health | 2025-05-30 | 2025-05-31 | Y |
| Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Health | 2025-05-08 | 2025-05-09 | Y |
| Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. | Health | 2025-05-08 | 2025-05-09 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2025-05-08 | 2025-05-09 | Y |
| Provide doctor's orders for the resident's immediate care at the time the resident was admitted. | Health | 2025-05-08 | 2025-05-09 | Y |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-02 | Y |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident?s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times. | Health | 2025-03-26 | 2025-05-01 | Y |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2025-01-16 | 2025-01-28 | Y |
| Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed. | Health | 2024-11-14 | 2024-11-19 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2024-11-14 | 2024-11-19 | Y |
| Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2024-11-14 | 2024-11-19 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2024-11-14 | 2024-11-19 | Y |
| Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Health | 2024-11-14 | 2024-11-19 | Y |
| Prepare residents for a safe transfer or discharge from the nursing home. | Health | 2024-10-15 | 2024-10-31 | Y |
| Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records. | Health | 2024-10-15 | 2024-10-16 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2024-09-24 | 2024-10-08 | Y |
| Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Health | 2024-09-24 | 2024-10-08 | Y |
| Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2024-09-24 | 2024-10-08 | Y |
| Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. | Health | 2024-09-10 | 2024-09-26 | Y |
| Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident. | Health | 2024-09-10 | 2024-09-26 | Y |
| Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-10 | 2024-05-20 | N |
| Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. | Fire Safety | 2024-05-10 | 2024-05-20 | N |
| Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options. | Health | 2024-05-10 | 2024-05-17 | N |
| Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Health | 2024-05-10 | 2024-05-17 | N |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2024-05-10 | 2024-05-17 | N |
| Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. | Health | 2024-05-10 | 2024-05-17 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2024-05-10 | 2024-05-17 | N |
| Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records. | Health | 2024-04-24 | 2024-05-05 | Y |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2023-10-03 | 2024-03-08 | Y |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2024-02-28 | 2024-03-08 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2024-02-09 | 2024-02-10 | Y |
| Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. | Health | 2024-02-09 | 2024-02-10 | Y |
| Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Health | 2024-02-09 | 2024-02-10 | Y |
| Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Health | 2023-10-03 | 2024-01-19 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2023-11-14 | 2023-12-17 | Y |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2023-11-14 | 2023-11-22 | Y |
| Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. | Health | 2023-10-03 | 2023-10-10 | Y |
| Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. | Health | 2023-10-03 | 2023-10-06 | Y |
| Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. | Health | 2023-06-30 | 2023-07-10 | Y |
| Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Health | 2023-06-30 | 2023-07-10 | Y |
| Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Health | 2023-06-30 | 2023-07-10 | Y |
| Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs. | Health | 2023-06-30 | 2023-07-10 | Y |
| Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge. | Health | 2023-06-30 | 2023-07-10 | Y |
| Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. | Health | 2023-06-30 | 2023-07-10 | Y |
| Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services. | Health | 2023-06-30 | 2023-07-10 | Y |
| Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. | Health | 2023-06-06 | 2023-07-06 | Y |
| Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. | Health | 2023-06-06 | 2023-07-06 | Y |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2023-06-06 | 2023-07-06 | Y |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2023-06-06 | 2023-07-06 | Y |
| Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Health | 2023-06-06 | 2023-07-06 | Y |
| Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. | Fire Safety | 2023-04-06 | 2023-05-03 | N |
| Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. | Health | 2023-04-06 | 2023-04-13 | N |
| Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Health | 2023-04-06 | 2023-04-13 | N |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2023-04-06 | 2023-04-13 | N |
| Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. | Health | 2023-04-06 | 2023-04-13 | N |
| Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. | Health | 2023-04-06 | 2023-04-13 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2023-04-06 | 2023-04-13 | N |
| Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas. | Fire Safety | 2022-01-11 | 2022-03-07 | N |
| Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |
| Post a list of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all pertinent State agencies and advocacy groups and a statement that the resident may file a complaint with the State Survey Agency. | Health | 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-28 | N |