Meridian Village Care Center
Nursing Home Facility
27 Auerbach Place, Glen Carbon, IL 62034
Meridian Village Care Center is a senior care community located in Glen Carbon, IL. It provides nursing home care, continuing care (CCRC), and senior living for older adults in the Glen Carbon area. To learn more or schedule a tour, call (618) 288-3700.
Meridian Village Care Center is licensed for 70 beds, about typical for the area, where senior care communities in Glen Carbon average about 89 beds.
Federal reporting puts occupancy at about 89% of its licensed beds. That is above the Glen Carbon average of roughly 68%.
Medicare rates this community 5 out of 5 stars overall, a score based on health inspections, staffing levels and quality measures. Its most recent standard health inspection was in November 2024 and recorded 4 deficiencies.
Residents receive about 4.7 hours of nursing care per day on average, including 0.9 hours from a registered nurse. Nursing staff turnover over the past year was about 28%.
The community is located in Madison County, IL.
Inspection record
In its last three standard inspections and any complaint visits, federal inspectors cited 7 problems at Meridian Village Care Center. None of them caused harm to a resident. 1 came from investigating complaints by residents or families.
Findings from the most recent inspection cycle
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Could cause more than minimal harm, widespread
Nutrition and Dietary
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Quality of Life and Care
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Nutrition and Dietary
Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Infection Control
Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
A citation on its own does not mean poor care, and most are corrected within weeks. What matters most is how serious the findings were and whether the same problems keep coming back. When you visit, it is fair to ask the administrator what inspectors found and what has changed since.
Meridian Village Care Center offers nursing home care, continuing care (CCRC), and senior living.
Facility details
- Organization type Non profit - Church related
- Beds / units 70
- Religious affiliation Church Based
- Occupancy 89%
- Nursing hours per resident/day 4.7
- Annual staff turnover 28%
- Last health inspection November 2024
Resident & family reviews
This is a review on Meridian's skilled nursing, not independent living or assisted living.
Meridian itself is one of the better facilities in the area. They do offer quite a lot of activities and the facility is well maintained. The skilled nursing portion of Meridian, however, has many opportunities for improvement.
My grandmother is a resident at Vintage Garden at Meridian. She has been there for over half a year. They are often short staffed with not enough nurses or CNA. Because they can't hire and keep enough nurses/CNAs, their staff often work overtime and double shifts. This leads to a general apathy, burn out, and "not my job" attitude amongst the workers. Residents often have to wait a long time before their call lights are answered. While this is a skilled nursing facility staffed with physicians and nurse practitioners, you rarely see the physicians and having them physically assess the resident when they are sick is apparently too much to ask. You're at the mercy of the nurse and their rigid protocols, but when the nurse is busy passing out medications and barely holding the fort down, you're lucky to get 5 minutes of her time in 8 hour shift. The nurses and CNAs also lack training on hand hygiene and infection control protocols. You rarely see them foaming their hands. News flash, you're suppose to foam your hand before and after using gloves, before and after contacting any patient and their environment. Also, you're suppose to vigorously wash your hands for 15 secs scrubbing all surfaces when you wash your hands with soap and water. It's no wonder that they currently have an influenza A outbreak and is being followed up by Illinois Department of Health. When you bring these concerns to their nursing supervisor, rather than coming up with an improvement plan, she tells you that this is not uncommon amongst nursing homes where the residents are elderly. If that's true, they have even more of a duty to make sure all their residents and staff get their flu shot and penumococcal vaccine! They should also isolate any resident having any symptoms of upper respiratory infection.
Luckily I live close by that I am able to keep an eye on my grandmother's care.
by Betty Lu, Jan 2017