BLOOMINGTON - A Bloomington nursing home has been fined $10,000 in the death of a resident last October.

Illinois Department of Public Health announced Monday that Bloomington Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 1925 S. Main St., had been fined because staff allegedly failed to activate the nursing home's emergency medical response system.

According to an Illinois Department of Human Services report, three nursing home staff members found a resident to be unresponsive but didn't do what was required by facility policy and didn't honor the resident's advanced directive request that he be resuscitated.

The nursing home has requested a hearing on the fine.

"We've put policies and procedures in place and staff has ongoing education," nursing home Administrator Janice Kindred told the Pantagraph. Training has been ongoing but has been "beefed up" since the October incident, she said.

Two staff members have been disciplined, according to the DHS report. Kindred wouldn't comment on whether they remain employed at Bloomington Rehab & Health Care Center, a 78-bed skilled- and intermediate-care facility.

The Bloomington nursing home was among 24 nursing homes throughout the state for which fines were announced Monday.

The DHS report indicated the 45-year-old resident had diagnoses of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure and chronic renal failure, but was largely independent.

At 11 p.m. Oct. 19, staff members found that he had no pulse and wasn't breathing. But none of three employees started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as required in his advanced directive, nor did they call 911.