Alden Lakeland Rehab and Health Care Center

820 West Lawrence
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-2570

Alden Lakeland Rehab and Health Care Center is a large rehabilitation facility with 300 beds. It specializes in short-term rehabilitation, transitional care, and post-acute services in luxurious accommodations.

Medicare awarded Alden Lakeland Rehab and Health Care Center a mere Average overall rating in 2018, taking into account an Above Average quality measures rating, a Below Average staffing rating, and an Average health inspection rating.

The health inspection rating is most important to look at when picking a nursing home. Here are some of the infractions noted on most recent health inspection reports:

6/7/2018 Failure to reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. Four residents reported broken or misplaced call lights, preventing them from calling for assistance from staff. It was also found that the facility had failed to provide a method of communication for a non-English speaking resident.

6/7/18 Failure to provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. The facility failed to ensure that fourteen residents who depend on staff assistance for their activities of daily living care and grooming received nail care, oral care, wear appropriate clean clothing, and are shaved. Residents were observed with dirty nails, dried food debris around mouths, as unshaven and with hair disheveled, dressed in a facility gown when personal clothing was available, or dressed in dirty clothing.

6/7/18 Failure to 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. The facility failed to ensure resident care items were labeled with the residents’ names and room numbers and were stored in a sanitary manner. Wash basins and bedpans were not stored in a sanitary manner. A soiled urinal was found open in a bathroom and giving the bathroom a foul smell. Toiletry items were found with no labels as to whose they were. These conditions affected seven residents.