By Mick Zawislak The new Winchester House skilled nursing facility being built on Route 45 southeast of Route 83 in Mundelein is more than halfway home, with its opening planned for mid-2020. When complete, the 185-bed facility on a former driving range will end any remaining Lake County government connection with Winchester House, which opened…

Winchester House to be constructed on vacant soccer fields. Three projects focused on serving the senior population are currently in various stages of approval and Mundelein officials say the developments are important to the town’s long-term plans. Mundelein trustees voted unanimously March 27 to rezone a parcel of land along Route 45 to make way for…

Transitional Care of Lake County Moves Forward. Mundelein officials have approved plans for a new $30 million nursing home that will replace a formerly county-run facility in neighboring Libertyville. The new facility, to be called Transitional Care of Lake County, will be built on Route 45 east of Route 83, on Mundelein’s south side. The…

Winchester House’s relocation to Mundelein moves forward Plans for Winchester House’s new location received unanimous approval Wednesday from Mundelein’s Planning and Zoning Commission. The Lake County Board voted in May 2015 to privatize the long-standing nursing home and move the facility from its current location at Winchester Road and Milwaukee Avenue in Libertyville to 850…

Transitional care facilities move ahead in Lisle, Aurora Rosemont-based Innovative Health said Monday it will break ground this summer on new short-term rehab centers in Lisle and Aurora, after winning court decisions against local competitors attempting to stop them. Innovative Health, which also plans to build more facilities in the region, already acquired the land on Ogden…

By Amy Roth Daily Herald correspondent   Despite some residents’ concerns about traffic safety, Aurora City Council approved a transitional care facility near Fox Valley Mall. Seven residents who live near the site of the short-term rehabilitation center spoke before aldermen voted Tuesday night on the plans. All said they had no opposition to the…

Ameet Sachdev • Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune Aging baby boomers are transforming the conventional nursing home. The stigma attached to nursing homes most often is that they’re a place you go to die. The last thing baby boomers, who came of age in the ’60s and ’70s and practically invented youth culture, will ever admit is that…

By Russell Lissau of Daily Herald The private company that operates the Winchester House nursing home has plans to close the county-owned facility in Libertyville and build something new in Mundelein. If Lisle-based Transitional Care Management’s $30 million proposal moves forward, it would officially mark the end of Lake County’s long involvement with Winchester House, a relationship that goes back…