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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Mental Health Nursing Home Frequently Troubled by Poor Sanitation and Resident Suicide

Posted on April 30, 2008
A mental health nursing home has made the news for two colossal problems: frequent resident suicide and unsanitary conditions. Multiple residents in the past year have attempted suicide and the state inspectors believe mental health nursing home abuse and neglect may be the culprit...

Uninsured Nursing Homes Plague Nursing Home Residents and Families Nationwide

Posted on April 29, 2008
A recent article highlights the dangers of residing in and placing family members in uninsured nursing homes. Uninsured nursing homes are extremely dangerous for residents because there is no way that residents can get fair and reasonable compensation for their injuries and families can recoup fair and reasonable compensation for their loved one?s wrongful death in a nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuit...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Adds New Website to Disclose Bad Nursing Homes

Posted on April 25, 2008
The Centers Medicare and Medicaid Services Nursing Home Compare website has added a new section that allows viewers to see information on nursing homes and identify homes that have drawn increased federal scrutiny for complaints and other forms of nursing home abuse and neglect...

Illinois Nursing Homes at Risk with Threats in Medicaid Reductions

Posted on April 25, 2008
Proposed changes to federal funding for Medicaid could cost Illinois more than 10,000 jobs and over $400 million in lost wages. Over the next five years, Illinois could see upwards of $2.5 billion in lost funding. Critics of the federal plan warn that reductions in Medicaid funding will shift the bill to the state in an already shaky economy...

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US Senate Begins Consideration of Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act

Posted on April 25, 2008
The US Senate has begun consideration of a new act that would raise the bar on nursing home care nationwide and attempt to curb nursing home abuse and neglect. The Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act, S. 2641, would shed light on the quality and operation of nursing homes and implement new standards for care...

Profitability of Nursing Home Real Estate Investment Trusts on the Rise

Posted on April 23, 2008
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have grown in popularity as the managing or owning entity for Illinois nursing homes. The REIT purchases and manages the nursing home facility as an investment property, usually as part of a larger portfolio of other nursing homes and hospitals...

Nursing Home Lobbyists Want to Limit Nursing Home Residents? Access to the Justice System

Posted on April 21, 2008
The debate over arbitration agreements for nursing home residents now has a new voice: the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living, two lobbying groups for the nursing home industry, now argue that arbitration agreements would improve nursing home resident care...

Nursing Home Staffers and Doctors Underpaid Compared to Counterparts

Posted on April 19, 2008
A recent article on the growing numbers of US seniors highlights a major problem with the US nursing home and senior care industry: nursing home staff members are woefully underpaid despite providing essential life assistance for nursing home residents...

What to do in a Nursing Home After an Earthquake

Posted on April 18, 2008
After Illinois experienced an earthquake today, it is important to know what nursing homes should do in the event of an earthquake to ensure resident safety and prevent nursing home injuries. The Central United States Earthquake Consortium has a useful publication on nursing homes and earthquakes...

Husband?s Vigilance Ensures Quality Nursing Home Care for Wife

Posted on April 18, 2008
A recent article on a Santa Barbara man provides an excellent example for Illinois families with loved ones in nursing homes. The man?s wife is confined to a nursing home facility because her MS is advanced. Her husband has become her most important advocate and lifeline, maintaining constant contact with the nursing home facility, providing oversight of the staff?s care, and often butting heads with the nursing home?s management to prevent nursing home abuse and neglect...

Police Arrest Assisted Living Facility Staff for Using Facility as a Drug Front

Posted on April 16, 2008
A southern police department has arrested five assisted living facility staffers after reports that staff members at the facility were selling drugs. The staff members were arrested while two seniors were in the facility. Increasing reports of staff misconduct and nursing home abuse and neglect at nursing homes and assisted living facilities have raised consumer awareness about the safety and security of their family members...

Nursing home lawsuit will be filed after two nurses are indicted at Woodstock Residence

Posted on April 14, 2008
Attorney Steven M. Levin will file a nursing home neglect lawsuit in Cook County on behalf of the family of a 78-year-old woman who died at Woodstock Residence. Two nurses from the facility were criminally indicted for elder abuse and neglect. See the full press release here.

Incidents of Abuse at Assisted Living Facilities on the Rise

Posted on April 14, 2008
Assisted living facility residents are increasingly in danger as incidents of assisted living facility abuse and misconduct by their fellow residents are more common. Recently, an assisted living facility saw two residents arrested in the same day. One resident was arrested for sexual abuse of an assisted living facility resident and the other was arrested for conspiring to sell drugs at the assisted living facility...

Nursing Homes Hope to Limit Residents? Rights; Congress May Take Action

Posted on April 14, 2008
Increasingly, nursing home operators seek to get their new residents to sign mandatory arbitration agreements that make it mandatory for residents to arbitrate outside of a courtroom any disputes over their nursing home care, nursing home abuse, or even wrongful death...

Licenses for 2 charged nurses targeted after suspicious Illinois nursing home deaths

Posted on April 13, 2008
Investigators have asked the state to examine whether the professional licenses should be suspended or revoked for two former nurses at an Illinois nursing home charged with Illinois nursing home neglect after a string of suspicious deaths. The family of a 78 year-old resident, represented by Levin & Perconti?s Steve Levin, announced plans to file an Illinois nursing home neglect lawsuit...

Nursing home industry tries to hinder justice in nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuits

Posted on April 12, 2008
Recently, lawmakers debated whether or not to limit damages on nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuits. Families of victims of nursing home abuse and neglect traveled to Capitol Hill to voice their opposition against a bill that would limit damages from nursing home abuse lawsuits...

Former nursing home employee claims she was fired for reporting nursing home sex abuse

Posted on April 12, 2008
Former nursing home administrator has filed a lawsuit saying she was fired because she complained that the executive director?s 91 year-old father was sexually assaulting a demented nursing home residence. Her lawyer states that this is a classic whistleblower case where the administrator was fired for sticking up for a patient suffering nursing home sexual abuse...

Some State Laws Block Public Access to Records of Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on April 11, 2008
A recent state law change highlights the need for family members to stay current with their loved ones? care in nursing homes. Previously, an Iowa state law effectively blocked public access to state nursing home inspector findings and reports of nursing home abuse...

Illinois Elder Abuse on the Rise; Illinois Responds with Task Forces

Posted on April 10, 2008
Elder abuse in Illinois has increased by 53% since 1993 according to the Illinois Department on Aging. In 2007, 9,489 complaints of elder abuse were reported. Unfortunately, the department estimates that upwards of 90,000 cases of elder and nursing home abuse go unreported each year...

State House Would Remove Minimum Care Standards for Nursing Homes

Posted on April 09, 2008
In some states, legislators attempt to alleviate budget concerns for eldercare by repealing laws that provide for minimum standards of care for nursing home residents. In response to a recent $4 billion dollar budget cut, a state legislature now threatens to turn back the clock...

Elder Abusers Increasingly See Jail Time and Criminal Fines

Posted on April 09, 2008
A man who has been accused of running an illegal nursing home facility now faces up to six years in prison and $12,000 in criminal fines. The man is accused of abusing an elderly man in his care at the illegal nursing home facility. The reports of abuse included a tennis ball sized ulcer resulting from a bed sore, extreme weight loss and malnourishment, dehydration, withholding medication, and canceling doctor appointments...

Elder Abuse: One Crime Against the Elderly Every 2.7 Minutes

Posted on April 08, 2008
One elderly person is victimized every 2.7 minutes in the United States, according to a recent ?crime clock? by the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. Common types of elder abuse include physical nursing home abuse, financial abuse and exploitation, and other crimes...

Family of Woodstock Residences Nursing Home Victim to File Suit

Posted on April 08, 2008
Steven Levin of Levin & Perconti will represent Virginia Cole?s surviving family members in a nursing home abuse and wrongful death lawsuit. Virginia Cole was one of the victims at Woodstock Residences, the Chicago-area nursing home at the center of a pending criminal trial...

Ex-Nursing Home Employee Arrested

Posted on April 04, 2008
An ex-nursing home employee from Illinois has been charged with neglect and unlawful distribution of morphine in connection with the deaths of six residents. This follows after investigators suspected morphine was involved in the death of six residents in the past three years...

Nursing Home Residents File Lawsuit for At-Home Care

Posted on April 02, 2008
Residents forced by state policy to live in a nursing home filed a lawsuit against the state for at-home care. The state policy essentially mandates that Medicaid beneficiaries live in a nursing home instead of providing them assistance while allowing these residents to live in, for example, subsidized housing...

Early research into nursing home care can lower likelihood of nursing home abuse and neglect

Posted on March 25, 2008
A Midwestern woman recently faced a decision that nobody hopes to ever face: which nursing home should I put my mother in?? Nursing homes are under increased scrutiny after several heart-wrenching nursing home abuse and neglect incidents. This daughter recommends visiting nursing homes and spending time with staff, residents, and other visitors...

Nursing Home Bill proposes mandatory insurance

Posted on March 20, 2008
Illinois nursing home advocates are not alone in their quest for ensuring that Illinois nursing homes are properly insured against injuries that occur in their facilities to residents from wrongful conduct. This week, an Oklahoma submitted an amendment to mandate that nursing homes in that state carry at least $250,000 of liability insurance...

Congress Seeks to Improve Level of Care at Nursing Homes

Posted on March 19, 2008
A bill to increase nursing home transparency and improve overall quality was recently introduced in Congress and is set to be heard by the Senate Committee on Finance. The Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act seeks to reform the ailing nursing home industry that appears to be providing a perpetually deteriorating level of care...

DSS Employee Charged With Failure to Report Abuse

Posted on March 17, 2008
A Department of Social Services employee was taken into custody due to her failure to report the abuse and neglect of a vulnerable patient. The DSS employee observed an elderly woman starving to death and living in deplorable conditions but did nothing to report or prevent the patient?s continued deterioration...

Nurse Gives Wrong Medication to Nursing Home Resident

Posted on March 14, 2008
A civil claim was filed against a nursing home charging that one of its nurses negligently contributed to the death of a resident. The resident died about two days after he was given the wrong medication by a nurse at the facility. The nurse acknowledged her error, once she realized that she had given the wrong medication to the wrong patient...

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