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Integrity Hc of Carbondale

A nursing home in Carbondale, Illinois 62901

120 North Tower Road, Carbondale, Illinois 62901. (618) 549-3355.

  • Cited for abuse (CMS flag)
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The short answer

Record last released by CMS on Oct 28, 2026.

The last 24 months 49 citations in 10 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: immediate jeopardy to health or safety (J). Every month

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What these words mean8
Star ratings
CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Scope and severity (A to L)
CMS grades each nursing home deficiency with a letter. A to C: no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. D to F: no actual harm, but potential for more. G to I: actual harm. J to L: immediate jeopardy. Within each band, the letter rises as more residents were affected or could be: one or a few, a pattern, or widespread. Source: CMS, nursing home scope and severity grid (State Operations Manual, chapter 7).
Nurse staffing hours
The hours registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurse aides worked, per resident per day, from the payroll records each home sends CMS. Source: CMS, Payroll-Based Journal.
Fines and payment denials
A fine (civil money penalty) is money CMS makes a nursing home pay when it falls short of federal rules. A payment denial means Medicare and Medicaid stop paying for new admissions until the home meets the rules again. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.430 and 488.417.
Immediate jeopardy
CMS’s most serious finding: the place’s failure to meet a rule caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death to someone in its care. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 489.3.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

18 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The Illinois average is 12.7.

Last standard inspection Feb 10, 2025.

Most serious in three years: immediate jeopardy to health or safety (J), at a standard inspection on Feb 10, 2025

Source:

CMS, Provider Information, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

When those citations happened

49 citations in 10 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: immediate jeopardy to health or safety (J). The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

49 citations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

All 49 citations in the last three years

Grouped by inspection, newest first. Each carries , from A, the least serious, to L, the most. 33 came from complaint inspections.

Source:

CMS, Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Oct 9, 2025: complaint inspection4 citations
  • Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident’s needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge.

    Rule F0627. H: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Oct 10, 2025.

  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

    Rule F0689. G: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 1, 2025.

  • Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

    Rule F0558. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Oct 10, 2025.

  • Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident’s needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.

    Rule F0628. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Oct 10, 2025.

Sep 10, 2025: complaint inspection4 citations
  • Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

    Rule F0684. G: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Aug 26, 2025.

  • Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

    Rule F0697. G: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Aug 26, 2025.

  • Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.

    Rule F0604. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 17, 2025.

  • Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident’s ability to function.

    Rule F0605. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 17, 2025.

Aug 27, 2025: complaint inspection5 citations
  • Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident’s health.

    Rule F0692. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 24, 2025.

  • Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.

    Rule F0727. F: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 3, 2025.

  • Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.

    Rule F0803. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 24, 2025.

  • Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.

    Rule F0804. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 2, 2025.

  • Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

    Rule F0812. F: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 3, 2025.

Jul 23, 2025: complaint inspection5 citations
  • Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident’s health.

    Rule F0692. G: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 24, 2025.

  • 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.

    Rule F0584. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Aug 6, 2025.

  • Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.

    Rule F0802. F: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Aug 5, 2025.

  • Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.

    Rule F0804. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 2, 2025.

  • Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

    Rule F0812. F: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Sep 3, 2025.

Feb 10, 2025: standard inspection10 citations
  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

    Rule F0689. J: immediate jeopardy to health or safety. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 27, 2025.

  • Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

    Rule F0550. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.

    Rule F0580. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Keep residents’ personal and medical records private and confidential.

    Rule F0583. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

    Rule F0600. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

    Rule F0610. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident’s most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

    Rule F0655. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

    Rule F0690. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.

    Rule F0693. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

    Rule F0812. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

Feb 10, 2025: standard and complaint inspection4 citations
  • Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

    Rule F0760. J: immediate jeopardy to health or safety. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

    Rule F0558. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.

    Rule F0804. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Rule F0880. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

Dec 19, 2024: complaint inspection5 citations
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

    Rule F0600. J: immediate jeopardy to health or safety. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 4, 2025.

  • Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

    Rule F0677. G: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jan 15, 2025.

  • Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

    Rule F0686. G: actual harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jan 15, 2025.

  • Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

    Rule F0755. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jan 15, 2025.

  • Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.

    Rule F0758. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jan 15, 2025.

Oct 25, 2024: complaint inspection1 citation
  • Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.

    Rule F0693. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Nov 13, 2024.

Sep 27, 2024: complaint inspection4 citations
  • Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident’s belongings or money.

    Rule F0602. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

    Rule F0609. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

    Rule F0610. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

    Rule F0755. F: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Oct 23, 2024.

Apr 23, 2024: complaint inspection1 citation
  • Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

    Rule F0550. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Apr 24, 2024.

Feb 8, 2024: standard inspection6 citations
  • Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

    Rule F0550. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

  • Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

    Rule F0558. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

  • 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.

    Rule F0584. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

  • Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

    Rule F0677. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

  • Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.

    Rule F0693. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

  • Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident’s bathroom and bathing area.

    Rule F0919. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

Is it certified, and in good standing?

  • Certified for Medicare and Medicaid since Sep 1, 1993.
  • Not on CMS’s special focus list.
  • CMS marks it with its abuse icon: cited for abuse or neglect that harmed a resident.
  • No change of ownership in the last 12 months.
  • CMS lists its ownership as for profit, limited liability company.
  • 131 certified beds.
Source:

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Has it been fined or penalized?

  • 3 fines in the last three years, $370,812 in all.
  • 2 Medicare payment denials in the last three years.
  • 33 citations in the last three years came from complaint inspections.
Source:

CMS, Penalties and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Fines and payment denials, newest first
DateKindAmount
Oct 9, 2025Fine$67,027
Jul 23, 2025Medicare payment denialNot given
Jul 23, 2025Fine$100,632
Dec 19, 2024Medicare payment denialNot given
Dec 19, 2024Fine$203,153

Who does the caring?

Staffing measures
MeasureThis homeIllinois average
Nurse hours per resident per dayNot given3.47
Of which registered nursesNot given0.71
At weekendsNot given3.08
Nursing staff turnoverNot given43.7%
Registered nurse turnoverNot given41.5%
Administrators who leftNot givenNot given

Who owns it?

  • 10 owners or officers are people: Steven Blisko (owns 5% or more directly, 100%); Marilynn Simmons (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Marilynn Simmons (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Christopher James Hanson (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Christopher James Hanson (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Kelly Kelley (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Kelly Kelley (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Alan Jason Irni (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Alan Jason Irni (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Steven Blisko (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)).
  • Part of Integrity Healthcare Communities (5 homes in CMS’s data).
  • No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
  • No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.
Source:

CMS, All Owners. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly.

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

How do residents fare?

  • CMS rates its quality measures 4 of 5 (Illinois average 3.1).
Source:

CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

CMS’s star ratings, from 1 to 5
MeasureRating
Overall rating1 of 5
Health inspections1 of 5
StaffingNot rated
Quality measures4 of 5

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among the 12 nearest homes, within 20.9 miles, this one had the 5th most health citations at the latest inspection cycle (18; the middle value was 16).
Source:

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

The 12 nearest, by straight-line distance
PlaceMiles awayCitations, latest cycle
Integrity Hc of Carbondale This nursing home18
Manor Court of Carbondale0.418
Helia Healthcare of Energy13.026
Integrity Hc of Cobden13.92
Integrity Hc of Herrin14.012
Shawnee Senior Living14.214
Parkway Manor15.34
Integrity Hc of Marion18.935
Integrity Hc of Anna19.034
Duquoin Nursing and Rehab19.02
Fairview Rehab & Healthcare19.01
Axiom Healthcare of West Frankfort20.926

What the record doesn’t say

  • Complaints that didn’t lead to a citation aren’t published.
  • Inspections reach CMS’s data about six weeks after they happen, and staffing about four months after.
  • CMS publishes the inspectors’ full written findings in a separate monthly file, which isn’t loaded yet.
  • Fines and Medicare payment denials are the only enforcement CMS publishes; state licence actions aren’t included.

Sources

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider Information (4pq5-n9py).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Penalties (g6vv-u9sr).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, All Owners (afe44b85-cc6d-40d7-b5df-00ae8910d1d2).

    Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, State and US Averages (xcdc-v8bm).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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