Mclean County Nursing Home

Dutiful Daughter

A loved one is in palliative care-I would not put them here! My father was here in May 2025 and what I witnessed was absolutely heartbreaking. I witnessed patients not being fed in the room who absolutely needed to, food was taken away, so they didn’t get to eat. If food was supposed to be puréed, it was whatever they had for that day in a blender and puréed it was disgusting. The help buttons were up so high that patients could not reach them. Walkers canes were being taken away from patients even though they could still use them and were beneficial to them. Falling happened every day and sometimes twice a day. That seemed acceptable. I asked for a full mat it was denied. I saw a nurse move a patient’s legs by holding onto the sock of her toes and moving her legs around. I witnessed medication given before lunch and this would knock the patients out so that they couldn’t eat. I’m not sure that that was on purpose, but there was no attempt to rectify. That is just to name a few things I witnessed.