Walnut Acres Supporters

Walnut Acres Supporters We are supporters of Walnut Acres, aka known as Stephenson County Nursing Home. Stephenson County citizens own Walnut Acres. Let's keep it that way.

Visit our website www.friendsofwalnutacres.com We are supporters of Walnut Acres, aka Stephenson County Nursing Home. We do not want Walnut Acres sold. We want to keep its 169 years long tradition of being a Illinois County owned Nursing Home.

Remember at the end of last month's full County Board meeting, when Chairman Helms stated that TCM did not do a yearly r...
07/10/2025

Remember at the end of last month's full County Board meeting, when Chairman Helms stated that TCM did not do a yearly report that was due. I'll put the video link and timestamps in the first comment below.
FACT: TCM was gone when this report was due IN MARCH. They had NOTHING to do with it.

FAST FORWARD TO last night's Court Services Committee starting at time stamp 17:00 minutes in, till the end, you will hear Chairman Helm's infuriating comments about this report, and how serious this failure to submit this report is. You will hear how he offers no apology to TCM and no acknowledgement that we needed to keep TCM as our Management Company.

• KEEP IN MIND THAT IF WE STILL HAD TCM THIS NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

• KEEP IN MIND THAT IF WE TOOK TCM UP ON ITS OFFER OF FULL MANAGEMENT, MADE LAST MONTH, WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS SITUATION.

• KEEP IN MIND THAT WHEN THEY ALL VOTE TO SELL NEXT THURSDAY, PERHAPS HELMS HAS HAD THIS PLAN ALL ALONG? PERHAPS THEY ARE NOT AT ALL UPSET WITH THIS, BECAUSE IT FITS THEIR NARRATIVE AND THEIR PLANS.

• KEEP IN MIND THAT VOTING TO SELL NEXT WEEK, HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THE STATE COMMITTEE AND JUST ASK DEKALB HOW THAT TURNED OUT FOR THEM.

• KEEP IN MIND THAT CLOSING THE FACILITY HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THE STATE COMMITTEE ALSO. IT'S NOT AS EASY AS JUST MOVING PEOPLE OUT AND CLOSING THE DOORS.
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06/19/2025

Sad day for our county. They voted 10 to 5 to accept the Letter of Intent for a sale to a company with no track record, that was formed 2 weeks ago and is managing 2 homes with 1 star ratings, 1 with an abuse charge. A company who we have no idea of who is behind them other than they get their money from a "bank".

Voting no was Bush, Newton, Williams, Hadley and Moderow. Brooke Wagner was absent and the others all voted yes.

They simply do not care if a law suit about selling without a referendum happens.

They brought up typical MAGA talking points. Private is better than public

"This is too complicated for the public to understand."

They don't care if there's a company that has offered a FULL CONTRACT, they want to sell

"This is different from our neighboring counties."

We are children trying to hang on to a broken toy, we need to grow up.

Its desire to keep this public is ridiculous. There are Medicare beds all over, within 30 miles. That's not too far to drive.

We already pay into Medicare and Medicaid, so we don't need to pay more.

We are competing with the private facilities in town and that's not fair to them.

"This company is offering a fair price" (Zero dollars).

We shouldn't be involved with a public entity, it should be privatized.

And the citizens voted for it a long time ago but it's different. Medicine is better now.

They even quoted Reagan "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." These points were brought up by Whalen, Hayes and Jogerst. Each spoke twice at least.

Several have asked "What about the state law saying we need a referendum?" Yes, you have a good point there. Because the...
06/16/2025

Several have asked "What about the state law saying we need a referendum?" Yes, you have a good point there. Because the County has never sold (not the same as trying) the home, a challenge to that law hasn't happened.
I did dig in and find AFSCME's response to Carl Larson's pretzel like interpretation. The video of Carl Larson explaining his logic to the full County Board on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpSQmUzz8Bk

Here are the two offers that came in Tuesday. One of them never made it to the table. Interesting huh? The NH committee ...
06/13/2025

Here are the two offers that came in Tuesday. One of them never made it to the table. Interesting huh? The NH committee voted today to take the Serenity Estates proposal to the full County Board meeting next Wednesday. You can learn more by attending the Coffee and Conversation with Lynette Williams and Adam Moderow at the Lincoln Mall today from 2-3pm. Lynette was at the NH committee meeting this morning.

05/08/2025

Stephenson County Nursing Center committee meeting is tonight. Here's the Link to watch from home. https://www.youtube.com/live/VyGtgAQN2TA?si=alikeph1O742QnHM
Tim Whalen asked the current Admin to give the new Administration company, Matrix, cudos for such "a breath of fresh air". BUT..... Helms was sure to bring the amount of the next write off up. He just doesn't get that write offs are a normal part of running a nursing home. We will always have write offs.

Boiled down farther, concerning the RFP and new RFQ, Chair Helms advised the Board not to vote on the RFP broker, (Helios was the only one that submitted a proposal). Helms says he knows a buyer is interested and perhaps we can save the broker's fee and sell without one. He advised we wait til June, when he is hopefully able to bring the buyer forward.

So who could this be? Pearl Pavillion has wanted the property before. Could it be them, the worst nursing home in town? Remember the one where a patient bled to death recently. Maybe...stand by for news.

The nursing home committee voted tonight to send an RFP out to hire a broker to sell the nursing home. Ronnie Bush and B...
04/11/2025

The nursing home committee voted tonight to send an RFP out to hire a broker to sell the nursing home. Ronnie Bush and Bill Hadley voted no and Jackie DeMeester, Tim Whalen, and Nicole Baker voted yes. Seems very sad that 3 people can make this call. It doesn't go to the full County Board until after they open the bids, so I'm May.

Here's the YouTube recording of the meeting tonight.

Congratulations to our county nursing home for being a finalist!
10/25/2024

Congratulations to our county nursing home for being a finalist!

Good advice,  check today.
08/11/2024

Good advice, check today.

You would think that it would be enough to register to vote.

Nursing Center committee meeting tonight.  630p. 7th floor of the Stewart Center (50 W. Douglas St., Freeport).  These a...
08/08/2024

Nursing Center committee meeting tonight. 630p. 7th floor of the Stewart Center (50 W. Douglas St., Freeport). These are good meetings to attend because you can see and hear who on this committee supports the nursing home and those who don't (and what they do to sabotage the facility's) success.

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3208 W. Lily Creek Road
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