South Elgin Living and Rehab Center LLC

    746 W Spring St, South Elgin, IL 60177
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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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

    Reviews

    2.68·(28)

    Overall rating

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

      2.0
    • Staff

      2.5
    • Meals

      1.5
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      1.8

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive caregivers
    • Longer-tenured nursing staff
    • Clean, well-maintained common areas in parts of the facility
    • Spacious, comfortable common-room space
    • Homelike dining environment
    • Safe, walkable location with maintained sidewalks
    • Affordable pricing
    • Friendly and helpful dietary and housekeeping staff
    • Engaging activities director with personalized resident connections
    • Residents who appear comfortable and at ease in communal areas

    Cons

    • Inconsistent clinical-care continuity and family communication
    • Staffing shortages and high employee turnover
    • Medication-management and administration process gaps
    • Unreliable availability of therapy and rehabilitation services
    • Inconsistent sanitation and odor control in some public areas
    • Delays in responding to resident call requests
    • Limited room size, storage, and dated facility finishes
    • Lack of a secured memory-care unit
    • Inconsistent meal quality and failure to meet dietary accommodations
    • Property-control and missing-personal-item issues
    • Ownership and management instability
    • Behavioral and noise-management challenges in communal areas
    • Allegations of financial exploitation and management conflicts

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews for this facility are mixed, with clear themes emerging across care, staffing, dining, environment, activities, and management. Several reviewers highlighted genuine strengths — notably caring, warm interactions from individual caregivers and certain longer-tenured nursing staff, a well-liked activities director who builds personalized connections, comfortable and homelike dining and common areas, and an affordable price point. These positive aspects suggest the facility can provide a reassuring social atmosphere for some residents.

    Care quality and clinical oversight show variability. While some staff members are described as hardworking and attentive, there are recurrent concerns about continuity of care and communication with families. Examples include medication changes or doctor transitions without notification, inconsistent one-on-one physician follow-up, and gaps in medication-administration controls. Staffing levels and turnover appear to be a persistent operational challenge; reviewers describe aides and nurses as overextended, long waits for assistance, and periods when therapy services were limited or unavailable. These patterns point to risks in timely attention and consistent clinical follow-through.

    Dining and activities elicit divergent impressions. The dining areas themselves are generally described as comfortable and homelike, and the activities director receives specific praise for individualized engagement. However, meal quality and service are inconsistent: reviewers cite uneven food quality, limited portions or second servings, and failure to accommodate special dietary needs in some instances. Families should confirm dietary protocols and menu practices in advance.

    The physical plant is an older building with visible wear and smaller resident rooms and limited storage; some rooms are described as notably dim. At the same time, common areas are often cited as pleasant and there is an overall sense of a safe, walkable location. Cleanliness observations vary markedly: some accounts describe well-maintained areas and caring housekeeping staff, while others raise sanitation concerns in public bathrooms and odors or incontinence-care issues. There are also reports of missing personal items, indicating a need to ask about property-control procedures.

    Management and operational stability are prominent concerns. Reviewers note ownership/financial instability, changes in management or bankruptcy/ownership transitions, and allegations involving financial exploitation and nepotistic staffing decisions. These are serious governance issues that can affect care continuity and trust. Additionally, reviewers flagged behavioral/noise-management needs in communal spaces and the absence of a secured memory-care unit for residents who require a locked dementia-specific setting.

    Overall, experiences range from positive, person-centered interactions to significant system-level deficiencies. Prospective residents and families should consider an in-person visit, review recent state inspection and enforcement records, and ask targeted questions about staffing ratios, therapy availability, medication administration policies, dietary accommodations, property safeguards, and procedures for reporting and addressing incidents. Verifying current management stability and reviewing contractual or financial protections is also advisable given the governance concerns described.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.

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    Location

    South Elgin Living and Rehab Center LLC is located at 746 W Spring St, South Elgin, IL, 60177.

    About South Elgin Living and Rehab Center LLC

    South Elgin Living and Rehab Center LLC sits in South Elgin, Illinois, and works as a for-profit senior living and rehab care facility owned by Petersen Health Properties, LLC. The building holds 152 certified beds, with 90 of those beds certified for Medicare and Medicaid, and the staff tracks hours for nurses and therapy services so residents get 24-hour skilled nursing, physical and occupational therapy, speech and respiratory therapy, and short-term or long-term rehab. People staying here can get personalized care plans, wound care, medication management, nutritional counseling, mental health services, pharmacy and lab services right on the premises, plus home making and transportation support if needed. The place is known for rehab with both inpatient and outpatient programs, like cardiac therapy, orthopedic rehab, optometry, podiatry, X-ray, and recreational therapy, and doctors can help with specialist services when called. The staff runs an Activity Center, Beauty Salon, Barber Shop, and group activity and fitness programs, and there's a 24-hour security system tied in for safety. The building doesn't belong to a hospital or a Continuing Care Retirement Community, and while there's only a resident council and no family council, folks do have a say on some matters inside. The nursing staff rates much above average for registered nurse staffing, but the Medicare overall rating sits much below average, with average overall staffing and 1 hour 17 minutes of licensed nurse time per resident each day, including almost an hour from registered nurses, and only 8 minutes per day for physical therapy. Inspection reports show 7 recent deficiencies but nothing severe, and there's no record of fines over the last three years. While some scores-like quality of resident care and mobility improvement-are much above average, a lower rate of residents received pneumonia or flu vaccines, though use of antianxiety medication and physical restraints is lower than the state average and zero residents were physically restrained. About 13% of long-stay residents have some depressive symptoms and about 18% of short-stay residents feel moderate to severe pain, but very few have urinary tract infections. South Elgin Living and Rehab Center passes regular state inspections, and anyone with Medicare or Medicaid can look into living or rehab here because they accept both insurance options.

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