F 0689
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Residents Affected - Few
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to
prevent accidents.
**NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on
interview and record review, the facility failed to follow their elopement policy by not allowing a resident to
leave the facility unauthorized without staff knowledge. This affected one of three residents R1 reviewed for
leaving the facility unauthorized. This failure resulted in R1 being found about 450 ft from the facility walking
down the street within minutes after leaving. Findings Include: R1's hospital referral package dated 6/16/25
documents: Per emergency department patient (R1) with tendency to roam the street. Psychiatric:
Cognition and Memory: Cognition is impaired. Memory is impaired. Comment: Highly impaired insight plus
judgement. R1 was admitted on [DATE] with the diagnosis of Dementia with other behavioral disturbance.
Minimal data set dated [DATE] documents a score of twelve which indicates moderate cognitive
impairment. Nursing note dated 6/20/25 documents: Resident (R1) is alert, forgetful and oriented to self
and situation. Elopement Risk Review dated 6/20/25 documents: Ambulation: Confined to chair/bed
(non-mobile without assistance) no; Predisposing diseases/condition: Does resident have a diagnosis of
Dementia/ Alzheimer's or severe mental illness or period of confusion: yes; Cognitive process: does
resident pace or wander: yes; History of elopement episodes for the past three (3) months: yes; Does the
resident readily accept nursing home placement: no Elopement risk: score twenty-one(21); Category: High
Risk for Elopement. R1's care plan initiated 6/20/25 documents: Resident (R1) demonstrates movement
behavior that may be interpreted as wandering, pacing or roaming related to the diagnosis of Dementia and
problems understanding the immediate environment. Attempting to leave facility without a responsible
escort (elopement). Pacing, roaming or wandering in and out of peers' rooms. Engaging in theme behavior,
believes he/she is in another time and place with specific responsibilities (must deliver mail due to being a
retired mail carrier), the resident is a new admission and not familiar with his/her environment. Nursing note
dated 6/21/25 documents: 72 hour charting: Resident (R1) up and about. R1 is alert and orient 1- 2 with
confusion, at baseline. R1 indicated to exhibit wandering behavior and is being monitored closely by staff
for safety. Community Survival Skills assessment dated [DATE] documents: Due to R1 diagnosis of
Dementia, R1 does not appear to be capable of unsupervised outside pass privileges at this time.Nursing
note dated 7/4/25 created 7/14/25 documents: (V8 nurse) Writer was informed by staff that the (R1)
attempted to exit the facility with accompanying (R2) peer's family members. All families entering the
building have been educated not to allow residents to join them in the elevator, given that this is a secure
unit with elopement precautions in place. R1 was observed on the first floor; the (V9) receptionist promptly
notified nursing, and R1 was redirected back to her room. R1 was reoriented to baseline, with education
provided that R1 resides in the facility and may leave only with approved pass authorization from her POA.
R1 is known to wander and is considered an elopement risk.Physician Progress note dated 7/4/25 created
7/16/25 documents: V11 (nurse practitioner) Writer informed by V2 DON via message that patient (R1) was
noted on the first floor after being on the elevator with
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Any deficiency statement ending with an asterisk (*) denotes a deficiency which the institution may be excused from correcting providing it is determined that other
safeguards provide sufficient protection to the patients. (See instructions.) Except for nursing homes, the findings stated above are disclosable 90 days following the
date of survey whether or not a plan of correction is provided. For nursing homes, the above findings and plans of correction are disclosable 14 days following the date
these documents are made available to the facility. If deficiencies are cited, an approved plan of correction is requisite to continued program participation.
LABORATORY DIRECTOR'S OR PROVIDER/SUPPLIER
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TITLE
(X6) DATE
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Department of Health & Human Services
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STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
AND PLAN OF CORRECTION
(X1) PROVIDER/SUPPLIER/CLIA
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER:
(X2) MULTIPLE CONSTRUCTION
145942
B. Wing
A. Building
(X3) DATE SURVEY
COMPLETED
07/18/2025
NAME OF PROVIDER OR SUPPLIER
STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
Landmark of Oak Lawn Rehabilitation and Nursing Ce
9525 South Mayfield
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
For information on the nursing home's plan to correct this deficiency, please contact the nursing home or the state survey agency.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
(Each deficiency must be preceded by full regulatory or LSC identifying information)
F 0689
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Residents Affected - Few
another patient family that was leaving the unit. R1 was redirected and assisted back to the second floor.
Spoke with nurse on duty and discussed elopement precautions and frequent rounding to be done to
ensure R1 does not exit unit unless supervised by POA or staff due to being elopement risk with diagnosis
of dementia, understanding voiced. Per nurse on duty the R1 did not leave the building and was easily
redirected back to the unit. V11 request that families are made aware that staff should be notified of any
residents attempting to leave the unit via elevator when they exit the facility. On 7/16/25 at 9:26am, V3
(complainant) said, she and V4 saw R1 on 95th street (7/4/25 @ 3pm) getting ready to cross the street. On
7/16/25 at 10:00pm, V4 (cna) said, he was off work. V4 said, he left the building around 3:15pm. V4 said, he
saw R1 walking down 95th street. V4 said, he called out to R1, asked R1 what she was doing to which R1
replied taking a stroll. V4 said, he brought R1 back to the building, stop at V9's desk to inform her that R1
was found outside the building on 95th street. V4 said, he took R1 to V8 (nurse). V8 was the nurse on R1's
unit. V8 did not know R1 left the building. V4's witness statement dated 7/17/25 documents: On July 4th, V4
saw R1 on 95th and walked R1 down the street back into the building. Let the front desk know and then
took R1 back upstairs. On 7/16/25 at 10:58am, V8 (nurse) said, R1 attempted to exit the facility with R2's
family. R1 went down the elevator. V4 (cna) brought R1 back to the unit. V8's statement documents: On
7/4/25 at 2:40pm, V8 was making the schedule for 3-11 shift when V9 called and asked if R1 was on the
unit. V8 completed a head count with peer nurse. R1 was coming off the elevator with cna. On 7/16/25 at
11:02am, V5 (cna) said, she was sitting in the hallway at the end of R1's unit, because R1 got onto elevator,
that requires a code, left the building and made it to 95th street. V4 brought R1 back into the building.On
7/16/25 at 11:19am, V9 (receptionist) said, R2's visitors V12-V13 (R2's visitors) signed out on the visitation
log and proceeded to exit. V9 said, she saw someone walk pass really fast behind V12/V13. V9 said, she
stood up, checked the computer because she was not sure if R2 was leaving with her family. V9 said, she
recalled that only two (2) people came to visit R2 and three (3) people were leaving. V9 said, about one
minute later, V4 (cna) brought R1 back into the facility. V9 said, R1 was a new admit. V9 said, she had never
seen R1 before. V9 said, R1 left the building via the front lobby exit. V9 said, staff was standing in front of
her desk but did not intervene. V9 said, V4 took R1 back to her unit on the second floor. V9 said, R1 exited
after R2's family around 3:11pm on 7/4/25.V9's witness statement dated 7/16/25 documents: V9 observed
a person walking past her behind two family members whom V9 did not recognize while at the front desk.
V9 said, she checked the electronic computer system what R2 looked like. Two (V5-V6 certified nursing
assistants/cna) knew who R1 was. V4 immediately walked R1 back in the building. As V5/V6 were standing
at the front desk and said, that's R1 On 7/16/25 at 11:41am, V2 (don) said, she did not work on the 7/4/25.
V2 said, she got some missed calls. V2 said, she got a call from V9 called to report R1 left out the building
with R2's family.V2 said, she was informed that V4 brought R1 back in. V2 said, she was not aware R1 was
on 95th street. Staff/certified nursing assistant (CAN) on R1's unit had to put in code for R1 to exit via the
elevator. R1 was had yellow pass status which meant she need someone (family, staff or power of health
care) to take R1 out of the building. On 7/16/25 at 12:51pm, V11 (nurse practitioner) said, she was not
aware R1 left the building. V11 said, she was notified via message that, R1 was on the first floor. On
7/16/25 at 1:01pm, V1 (administrator) said, a true elopement is when a resident is found outside facility and
staff doesn't know that they are missing, or when someone driving past and see one of the resident that no
one knows is out of the building. V1 said, she has not have any true elopements. V1 said, residents that are
high risk for elopement are residents who are exit seeking, mobile, with a diagnosis of Dementia,
cognitively impairment residents, newly admitted or newly
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FORM CMS-2567 (02/99)
Previous Versions Obsolete
Event ID:
Facility ID:
145942
If continuation sheet
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Printed: 05/15/2026
Form Approved OMB
No. 0938-0391
Department of Health & Human Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
AND PLAN OF CORRECTION
(X1) PROVIDER/SUPPLIER/CLIA
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER:
(X2) MULTIPLE CONSTRUCTION
145942
B. Wing
A. Building
(X3) DATE SURVEY
COMPLETED
07/18/2025
NAME OF PROVIDER OR SUPPLIER
STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
Landmark of Oak Lawn Rehabilitation and Nursing Ce
9525 South Mayfield
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
For information on the nursing home's plan to correct this deficiency, please contact the nursing home or the state survey agency.
(X4) ID PREFIX TAG
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
(Each deficiency must be preceded by full regulatory or LSC identifying information)
F 0689
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Residents Affected - Few
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orientated to building. V1 said, R1 was not a true elopement. R1 was witnessed by staff leaving and
redirected. V1 said, V9 reported seeing V12/V13 leaving but did not know R1 who left with R2 family. V1
said, the facility does not have a wander guard system. R1's unit has an elevator has a key pad to which the
code must be entered to exit R1's floor. Nothing was written down, no new systems was implemented and
she did not view cameras for R1 incident. V1 said, the cameras are for quality assurance purpose only. On
7/16/25 at 4:02pm, V12 (R2's visitor) said, he was with V13 when a female resident got on the elevator with
him after staff entered the code. The code was enter three different time because the elevator did not come
the first time. V12 was unable to identify which staff member entered the code. V12 said, a small, dark skin,
thick staff member entered the code once and then another staff member entered the code a second/third
time. V12 said, he was unable to determine if the staff member was a nurse or certified nursing assistant
but they all had on scrubs. V12 said, he did not received any education from the facility about letting
residents on the elevator. V12 said, he thought it was odd that a resident would be allowed on the elevator
since staff had to enter a code for the elevator in order exit the second floor. V12 said, the sign out time on
the visitation log was correct as far as he could remember. Visitation log dated 7/4/25 documents: V12
signed out at 3:11pm. On 6/17/25 at 9:17am, V4 (cna) said, R1 was found in the corner of 95th in front of
the dental office. R1 had turned the corner off [NAME] and was walking east bound on 95th street. Google
map documents: The dentist office was 450 feet away from the facility, mostly flat, with a two (2) minute
estimate time of arrive (eta) by walking. R1 was returned to the facility less than ten minutes of leaving the
facility by V4On 7/18/25 at 7:53am, V14 (R1's power of authority) said, R1 has a history of wandering. R1
would leave the house, go to located business and always find her way home. R1 was probably trying to
find her way home when she left the building. V14 said, she wouldn't want R1 roaming the streets because
she could have been hit by a car. V14 said, R1 said would have been extremely confused, fearful, agitated
and scared wandering the streets in a neighborhood that was not familiar to R1. V14 said, she was scared
for R1 during the interview to hear R1 was out of the building and found on the corner away from the facility.
V14 said, R1 is mixed raced. V14 said, it is very concerning that R1 was out of the building with no
identification or supervision. V14 said, if R1 was seen by united state immigration and customs enforcement
R1 could have been detained. V14 said, she received a call from the facility at 9:30pm, informing her that
R1 wanted to go home. V14 said, she was surprised by the call. The facility should have been able to
address R1's needs. V14 said, she does not recall the nurse or the date she called. V14 said, she spoke to
R1, along with other family member, R1 eventually forgot she wanted to leave prior to the end of the phone
call. V14 said, she was not aware, R1 was out of the building. Elopement Policy no date document: It is the
policy of this facility that all resident are provided adequate supervision to meet each resident's nursing and
personal care needs. Resident at risk for elopement will be provide at least one of the following safety
precautions, staff supervision of the facility exit either directly or by video camera. Procedure for the
response to missing resident: The administrator/designee shall contact the resident's representative.
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