East Moline, IL
Like many counties that own and operate aging county skilled care nursing facilities, Rock Island County debated several outstanding issues surrounding Oak Glen Home, located outside of Quad Cities in rural Coal Valley. The aging building infrastructure has become expensive to maintain, with several citations having been issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The facilities isolated location, having no public transportation serving the area, makes it difficult for residents' family members and visitors, many of whom are also elderly, to get to the facility; it has also become increasingly difficult to get medical care to the facilities residents.
The answer the county chose was the replacement of the facility, relocating it to a site closer to the Quad Cities, in East Moline. The new 245-bed facility, the Rock Island County Care Center, occupies approximately 126,000 square feet on a site located adjacent to a wooded ravine. A tight schedule due to an agreed upon schedule negotiated with the Illinois Department of Public Health, the project was designed in phases as a fast track project, allowing phased state reviews and an earlier start of construction.
The new facility has a Commons Building featuring a Main Street with Main Lobby and Administration, Banking Center, Chapel, Dining Room, Activities Center, Library, Barber/Beauty Shop and Dental Office. Physical Therapy, adjacent to the Mail Lobby and main entrance serves the needs of the facility and also the community as an outpatient facility.
The facilities 245 beds are grouped in seven separate thirty-five bed resident units within four living "pods", connected to the Commons Building by corridor links off from the Main Street. Two of the resident units which comprise one of the pods serves the needs of dementia residents. Each unit has a Commons Area adjacent to the Nursing Center, with an Assisted Dining, Living Room and Kitchen Area for the use of residents and their families. Each dementia unit also has a private Family Room, for quiet visits between residents and family and friends. For environmental comfort, heating in the new facility is by the use of radiant floors.
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