DIXON – Dixon Rehabilitation and Health Care
Center was fined $25,000 after investigators say the nursing home failed
to adequately supervise a resident who raped another resident.
The Illinois Department of Public Health issued
the fine earlier this year following an investigation of an incident on
Thanksgiving where a resident raped another resident with his fingers,
according to the IDPH report.
“Based on the interview and record review the
facility failed to supervise a male resident with known sexual
aggression to prevent resident from having access to female residents on
the dementia unit,” the report said.
According to the investigation:
The resident was admitted to the facility, 800
Division St., in June 2018 with diagnoses including frontal lobe
dementia, delusional disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, major
depressive disorder, and restlessness and agitation.
He was transferred to a psychiatric hospital after
an altercation with another resident and was readmitted to Dixon Rehab
in September with a care plan that included monitoring certain behaviors
and checking on him every 15 minutes.
His behavior began to grow more aggressive
sexually including making inappropriate comments to women staff members
and guests of the nursing home, and he expressed desire to kiss and have
sex with other residents, including asking a nurse “I want her, can I
have her?” about one of the residents.
On Oct. 27, he was placed on increased behavioral
monitoring after sitting on a couch next to a resident and touching her
inappropriately across her chest, down her leg and poking her hip.
On Nov. 22, two certified nursing assistants were
moving a chair to another room when the resident was pacing in the
hallway. One of the CNAs returned, didn’t see him in the hallway and
heard “that hurts” coming from another resident’s room, where he was
found standing over her pulling a blanket back over her waist.
When asked what he was doing, he told the CNA in a
vulgar comment that he was penetrating the resident with his fingers.
He was discharged from the facility shortly after.
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