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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Nursing Home Lawsuit Filed After Resident Death

Posted on July 26, 2010
A 2007 death at a nursing home in Rochester, New York has led to a nursing home lawsuit. The suit alleges medical malpractice and wrongful death against the facility whose negligent care led to the death. The Rochester Post-Bulletin is reporting on the lawsuit, which involved two residents with dementia at the Sunrise Assisted Living Facility...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Collinsville Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

Posted on July 25, 2010
The Collinsville Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, afacility in Southern Illinois near St. Louis, recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $20,000. The violations resulted from mismanaged situation resulting in one resident sexually abusing another...

Illinois Caregiver Steals from Elderly Patient

Posted on July 24, 2010
The Daily Herald reported this week on a disturbing example of elder financial exploitation out of Wheaton, Illinois. Angelica Ledesma was hired to care for an 82-year old elderly woman who lived in the western Chicago suburb. Like so many other seniors when they reach a certain age, the Wheaton woman needed close assistance to complete necessary day-to-day responsibilities, and Ledesma was tasked with providing that needed care...

Chicago Nursing Homes Using Scare Tactics to Keep Residents From Leaving

Posted on July 23, 2010
The Chicago Tribune reported recently on a new lawsuit filed by nursing home reform advocates against profit-driven nursing home operators. Currently, over 4,500 Illinois residents with mental disabilities live in twenty four specifically designated Institutions for Mental Disease (IMDs) throughout the state...

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Caregiver Arrested For Elder Financial Abuse

Posted on July 22, 2010
ABC7 News is reporting of another example of the vulnerability finances of many senior citizens. In an appalling case of elder financial exploitation, a ninety year old woman, Marian McGlone, had hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from her savings by her caregiver, Erma Jean Williams...

Nursing Home Operator Charged With Elderly Neglect

Posted on July 21, 2010
Another unfortunate example of elder abuse announced yesterday in Florida highlights the constant need to provide close scrutiny of all facilities providing care to our vulnerable seniors. ABC Action News reported on the arrest of the Juanita Jackson Wright an assisted facility operator...

Nursing Home Closed After Abuse and Neglect

Posted on July 20, 2010
Another nursing home is being closed amid continuous examples of substandard care, dangerous negligence, and unabashed elder abuse reports First Coast News. The Glenwood Nursing Center in Arlington, Florida is being shut down by the state?s Department of Health, in a rare move spurred by repeated examples of inadequate care by the nursing home staff members...

Illinois Governor Signs Legislation Targeting Elder Financial Abuse

Posted on July 19, 2010
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill today which seeks to limit senior financial exploitation across the state. Abusing the finances of elderly residents is often cited as the most common form of senior abuse. Many seniors are especially vulnerable to financial exploitation, because they lack the ability to adequately defend themselves...

Inadequate Staffing Causes Nursing Home Negligence

Posted on July 19, 2010
A recent post on My Elder Advocate, provided a call to arms arguing that state legislatures needed to address the inadequate and harmful nursing home staff ratios. The article mentioned two New York nursing home residents who were placed on what was supposed to be closely monitored skin assessments, turning, and positioning to help correct pressure sores...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: California Gardens Nursing and Rehab Center

Posted on July 18, 2010
The California Gardens Nursing and Rehab Center, a care facility on the southwest side of Chicago, recently received a Type ?A? Violation from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $5,000. The violation resulted from mismanaged situations at the facility which involve nursing home neglect...

$29 Million Nursing Home Abuse Verdict Upheld

Posted on July 17, 2010
One of the largest elder abuse verdicts ever handed down was upheld this week according to the Sacramento Bee. A Superior Court judge recently kept intact the $29 million verdict against Horizon West HealthCare resulting from the 2005 death of one of its residents...

Illinois to Continue Process of Shutting Down Evergreen HealthCare Center

Posted on July 16, 2010
A Southwest Star article this week discussed the latest updated in the license revocation situation of the Evergreen HealthCare Center in Evergreen Park. Evergreen is a facility that has repeatedly been found to have provided negligent care to its nursing home residents...

Illinois Resident Files Lawsuit Against Negligent Nursing Home

Posted on July 15, 2010
My Journal Courier reported on a nursing home lawsuit filed by James Niles following the premature 2007 death of his 66 year old mother, Neida Niles. The suit was first filed in Cook County, but the Jacksonville, Illinois based defendants had the case moved downstate to Morgan County...

Negligent Care Provided at the Champaign County Nursing Home

Posted on July 14, 2010
The Champaign County Nursing Home is under state investigation yet again for an incident involving mistreatment of a nursing home resident at the facility. As the Champaign News-Gazette reports, a resident suffered a laceration requiring 24 stitches when an nursing home aide attempted to move her...

New Penalties Proposed for Negligent Nursing Homes

Posted on July 13, 2010
The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) proposed new regulations yesterday for civil money penalties for nursing homes that violate CMS participation rules. Much of the money used to run nursing homes and provide care to elderly citizens is provided by CMS...

Repeated Nursing Home Negligence Leads to Multiple Lawsuits

Posted on July 12, 2010
The nursing facility Britthaven of Chapel Hill is embroiled in a series of legal actions after several separate incidents of negligent and abusive care that occurred at the facility reports the News Observer. A nurse at the facility, Angela Almore will head to court tomorrow in second-degree murder and patient abuse charges following the death of resident Rachel Holliday and the hospitalization of six other residents at the facility...

Scams Against the Elderly on the Rise

Posted on July 11, 2010
The Washington Post recently discussed a growing problem: the rise of elder financial abuse. Each year more and more seniors Americans are swindled, tricked, and robbed out of the funds they have often spent their lifetimes saving. A study by the MetLife Mature Market Institute last year discovered that seniors lose at least $2...

Wanted Criminals Found in Illinois Nursing Home

Posted on July 10, 2010
Another Illinois nursing home was randomly checked this week to determine its compliance with state nursing home laws, reports the Peoria Journal Star. However, what inspectors found was five residents wanted for crimes on outstanding warrants when thy investigated the Sharon Health Care Willows facility in Peoria...

Illinois Nursing Homes Owners Involved in Illegal Pharmaceutical Sales

Posted on July 09, 2010
A new lawsuit filed in Illinois this week alleges illegal kickbacks in a sale of a Chicago-based pharmaceutical company owned by the operators of Illinois nursing homes, reports the Chicago Tribune. The suit charges pharmaceutical giant Omnicare, Inc...

New Appointment to Lead Nursing Home Reform Efforts

Posted on July 08, 2010
Yesterday, President Obama appointed Dr. Donald Berwick as the new Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS is the federal agency that regulates nursing homes and all other facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funds...

Nursing Home Negligence Trial Results in $677 Million Verdict

Posted on July 07, 2010
Three weeks ago we posted a story on the closing statements of a high profile trial involving nursing home negligence at several of the homes owned by Skilled HealthCare based out of California. The Contra Costa Times reports that yesterday the jury in the case finally returned a verdict, finding against the nursing home and awarding a staggering $677 million dollars in damages...

Chicago Nursing Home Resident Drowns in Bathtub

Posted on July 06, 2010
The Chicago Tribune reported last night on the drowning death of a Chicago nursing home resident. Jean Engstrom, a 51 year old mentally ill woman, died in the evening of July 4th at the Warren Park Nursing Pavilion. The facility is suppose to provide care to nearly 100 residents and is located on the northwest part of the city in West Rogers Park, near Damen Avenue and Devon Avenue...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Barry Community Center

Posted on July 05, 2010
The Barry Community Center, a care facility in Southern Illinois, recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $35,000. The violations resulted from mismanaged emergency situations at the facility which involved nursing home abuse and neglect...

Investigation Shows Nursing Homes Giving Inadequate Care

Posted on July 04, 2010
An extensive investigation conducted by California Watch has revealed that hundreds of nursing homes have decreased staffing levels, even though they received hundreds of millions of dollars in increased public funding. The Ventura County Star reported on the investigation which analyzed the effect of a 2004 law which ultimately funneled more than $880 million in increased state and federal funds to nursing homes...

Jury Awards $7 Million in Nursing Home Lawsuit

Posted on July 03, 2010
WKYT News reported yesterday on the conclusion of a nursing home negligence trial. The jury ultimately determined that an aide at the Hillcrest Center was responsible abusing resident Grace Fugate. Ms. Fugate was 67 in July of 2003 when she first entered the care of healthcare workers at Hillcrest for what was scheduled to be a short stay to recover from knee surgery...

Survey Results Reveal Repeated Nursing Home Neglect

Posted on July 02, 2010
The Gazette, a publication of the Consumer Voice and National Long-Term Ombudsman Resource Center, recently released a newsletter that discussed severe deficiencies in the Kentucky nursing home system. The article noted that over 200 deficiencies have been found in the state?s nursing home system since the beginning of the year alone...

New Nursing Home Laws Seek to Improve Elder Care

Posted on July 01, 2010
The Center for Medicare Advocacy released new information to help explain the nursing home provisions in the recently passed federal legislation known commonly as the ?Affordable Care Act.? The Act is actually a collection of two different pieces of legislation, each of which affects nursing home care throughout the country...

Repeated Nursing Home Negligence in Evergreen Park

Posted on July 01, 2010
Recently, our Chicago nursing home abuse attorneys at Levin & Perconti filed suit against the Evergreen Health Care Center in Evergreen Park, Illinois. The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the case. Cordelia Lee was an intelligent, active, former postal worker and homemaker who lived alone for over a decade after her husband?s death...

Participate in Elder Abuse Events in July

Posted on June 30, 2010
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Elder Abuse Month in Illinois. To raise awareness for the all too prevalent elder abuse issues, communities across the state will participate in events aimed at eliminating the abuse of our vulnerable seniors. Erma Davis-Williams, the Program Director of Elder Services/Elder Abuse for the Centers for New Horizons called on all Illinoisans in The Chicago Tribune to take steps to raise awareness of the neglect faced by tens of thousands in the state each year...

Nursing Home Abuse Victim Wins $4.85 million

Posted on June 29, 2010
The family of a man who tragically died of a morphine overdose due to nursing home abuse has recently been awarded nearly $5 million, reports The Toledo Blade. Burr Needham entered the Mercy Memorial Nursing Center in late April of 2002 to receive physical therapy for a nondisplaced hip fracture...

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