A Place for Mom
Assisted Living
Memory Care
Independent Living
Senior Living

Make the best senior care decision

Illinois Assisted Living Regulations and Records

Written by Sho Ly
3 minute readLast updated May 5, 2020

When choosing an assisted living community, it is important to understand Illinois state regulations for assisted living facilities and know how to look up assisted living license information. But public access to assisted living records varies greatly by state.

Let our care assessment guide you

Our free tool provides options, advice, and next steps based on your unique situation.

Take our free care quiz

We developed a system to rate each state on how easy – or difficult – it is to find important assisted living records and reports, and compiled tips to help you in your search.

States with the most transparent records allow you to look up important information about each assisted living facility online, including inspections, complaints, survey results, violations, capacity, and whether the facility accepts Medicaid.

Let our care assessment guide you

Our free tool provides options, advice, and next steps based on your unique situation.

Access to Illinois assisted living records: Moderate

Public access to assisted living records and reports for the state of Illinois is moderate. Key findings that informed this rating include:

  • Illinois was marked down somewhat in our rankings because it does not provide inspection reports online.
  • Illinois has below average openness and accessibility of assisted living information.
State provides moderate access to assisted living records and licensing

How to look up Illinois assisted living licenses and records

  • For a simple list of licensed providers, visit the licensed establishments list.
  • Visit Illinois’ Information Reports on Long-Term Care Facilities to find information about the backgrounds of communities. This information is self-reported by the communities and is not a database of survey reports or inspections.
  • You can also visit the US Administration on Aging’s Eldercare Locator to located the appropriate long-term-care ombudsman. The long-term care ombudsman can often provide specific information about communities and their backgrounds.
  • If you need to make a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get records, consider browsing the state-by-state resources from the National Freedom of Information Coalition, which includes sample state-specific FOIA letters.

Talk with a Senior Living Advisor

Our advisors help 300,000 families each year find the right senior care for their loved ones.

How we arrived at our Illinois rating

We developed a standard methodology for state data collection and evaluation, and based our rating primarily on the objective, state-specific accessibility criteria outlined in these questions:

  1. Are licensed assisted living communities listed online in any form? Yes
  2. If Yes to #1, is the information updated frequently? No
  3. If Yes to #1, is the list of licensed communities searchable? Yes
  4. Does the state post inspections, complaints, survey results, or violations online? No
  5. If Yes to #4, is the information updated frequently? [within 90 days] No or N/A
  6. If Yes to #2 and #4, is the enforcement information included in the same place as licensed communities? No or N/A
  7. If Yes to #4 and No to #6, are violations / inspections searchable at all? No
  8. Is information about special licensing for care shown? Yes
  9. Capacity shown? Yes
  10. Payment types shown, [e.g. Medicaid, private pay]? No
  11. Administrator / Contact name shown? No
  12. State may fine facility? Yes
  13. Frequency of inspections? Every 12 months
  14. Website includes pricing of facility? No

SHARE THE ARTICLE

Meet the Author
Sho Ly

The information contained on this page is for informational purposes only and is not intended to constitute medical, legal or financial advice or create a professional relationship between A Place for Mom and the reader. Always seek the advice of your health care provider, attorney or financial advisor with respect to any particular matter, and do not act or refrain from acting on the basis of anything you have read on this site. Links to third-party websites are only for the convenience of the reader; A Place for Mom does not endorse the contents of the third-party sites.