Nokomis Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

    505 Stevens St, Nokomis, IL, 62075
    4.4 · 7 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    2.0

    Caring staff, dangerous medical neglect

    I appreciate the calm, caring, trustworthy staff and collaborative management who helped my family and were dependable. However, I experienced serious medical and hygiene lapses-poor medication management, delayed urine tests, inadequate pain control (no pain meds after hip surgery), infrequent showers and pressure/diaper rash issues-that need urgent attention.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    4.43 · 7 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.7
    • Staff

      3.7
    • Meals

      4.4
    • Amenities

      4.4
    • Value

      4.4

    Pros

    • great management and caregivers
    • collaborative care team
    • supportive staff
    • helps residents and families achieve goals
    • dependable staff
    • calm staff
    • caring staff
    • trustworthy staff
    • good facility for aging loved ones

    Cons

    • poor medication management
    • delayed urine analysis
    • inadequate pain management
    • no pain medication after hip surgery
    • insufficient shower frequency
    • medication not effective
    • delayed medical testing
    • pressure sores
    • diaper rash

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment from the reviews is mixed: reviewers consistently praise the people and the facility environment while also describing a series of concerning clinical and basic-care issues. Positive comments emphasize strong interpersonal qualities — management and caregivers are characterized as great, staff are dependable, calm, caring and trustworthy, and the team is described as collaborative and supportive in helping residents and families meet goals. At the same time, multiple reviewers report significant care-process failures related to medication, testing, hygiene, and wound/skin care.

    Care quality and clinical management: Several reviews raise serious clinical concerns. Poor medication management is a recurring theme, with specific notes that medications were not effective and that there were delays in administering or managing treatments. Reviewers reported delayed urine analysis and delayed medical testing more broadly, which suggests lapses in timely diagnostic follow-up. Pain management is flagged repeatedly, including an acute example where a resident reportedly received no pain medication following hip surgery. These clinical issues point to gaps in medication reconciliation, timely lab/testing follow-through, and pain-assessment and treatment protocols.

    Basic nursing and hygiene: Reports of insufficient shower frequency, pressure sores, and diaper rash indicate problems with routine personal care and skin integrity management. Pressure sores and diaper rash are particularly notable because they often reflect inadequate repositioning, insufficient skin assessment, or failures in incontinence care. Taken together with the hygiene complaint about shower frequency, these items suggest operational weaknesses in daily care routines or possible staffing/assignment problems affecting basic caregiving tasks.

    Staff, management, and family relations: Despite the clinical and hygiene concerns, reviewers consistently describe management and frontline caregivers in positive terms. The facility is praised as supportive and collaborative, and staff are described as helping residents and families achieve goals. This contrast — competent, compassionate staff on one hand and systemic lapses in clinical processes on the other — suggests that individual caregivers are well-regarded but may be constrained by process, training, resourcing, or communication issues beyond their immediate control. Families appear to trust the staff personally even while being concerned about specific care outcomes.

    Facilities, services, dining, and activities: The reviews explicitly call the place a good facility for an aging loved one, but they do not provide details about dining, recreational activities, or specific facility amenities. Because those domains are not mentioned, no strong conclusions can be drawn from these summaries about food quality, social programming, or physical environment beyond the general positive impression of the facility.

    Notable patterns and concerns: The most consistent negative patterns are problems in medication/medical testing timeliness and effectiveness; inadequate pain control (including a serious post-surgical lapse); and deficits in hygiene and skin care (showers, pressure sores, diaper rash). The most consistent positives are strong, dependable, and compassionate staff and management who communicate and collaborate with families. This combination suggests that while the culture and individual caregivers are strengths, there are actionable system-level issues (medication systems, testing workflows, pain protocols, and basic nursing care processes) that undermine clinical safety and resident comfort.

    In summary, prospective residents and families should weigh the facility's clear strengths in staff demeanor, management support, and overall trustworthiness against documented clinical and operational concerns. If considering this center, families may want to ask specific questions about medication administration processes, timelines for lab and diagnostic follow-up, pain management protocols (especially post-operative care), staffing levels for personal care tasks, and prevention/management protocols for pressure injuries and incontinence-related skin breakdown. Addressing those system-level areas would align the facility’s strong culture of caring with consistently reliable clinical outcomes.

    Location

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    About Nokomis Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

    Nokomis Rehabilitation & Health Care Center sits at 505 Stevens St in Nokomis, Illinois, and offers care for seniors with a range of health needs, so you'll find independent living, assisted living, short-term rehab, long-term nursing care, and specialized Alzheimer's care all under one roof, spread across 92 beds but usually with about 25 residents a day, keeping things a bit quieter than bigger places. The facility is Medicare and Medicaid certified, and matches state averages with daily nurse hours, though they've had a nurse turnover rate of 52.4%, which is higher than most, and they've also been cited for 35 health and safety deficiencies, including issues with cleanliness, safe medicine storage, nurse staffing, and infection control, which points to some lapses that families may want to keep in mind. Skilled staff offer 24-hour nursing care, with a licensed team ready to help with daily tasks, medication needs, meals, housekeeping, and laundry, and there are transportation services for doctor's visits, shopping, and activities outside the building, which can mean getting out isn't too hard even for those needing extra help. Residents who need therapy get physical, occupational, or speech therapy, either during rehab or as a long-term care program, and there's a dedicated Alzheimer's care unit that uses reality orientation classes and trained staff who focus on helping residents keep busy with things they enjoy. There are community spaces like a beauty salon, chapel, library, and a barbershop, and people can make use of independent living apartments or townhouses, which make the campus feel a bit more like a neighborhood than a hospital. Daily life includes activity and social events, and families are always welcome to visit, adding a homey feeling and helping everyone stay connected, but the main focus really seems to rest on nursing care and rehabilitation, with leadership working since 2019 to keep programs moving forward, even though recent oversight reports say they still have areas needing improvement. The facility works with Petersen Health Care, and tries to balance health services with comfort, but it's clear there are ongoing challenges with environmental safety, infection, staffing, and compliance, so any family touring will want to ask plenty of questions and look past the amenities to make sure the fit is right for their loved one and their needs.

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