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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Nursing Home Resident Falls as a result of Employee Error

Posted on May 16, 2010
The Madison Record is reporting a case of serious nursing home abuse in Illinois. A woman is claiming that nursing home employees allowed her to sustain numerous injuries. They are claiming that she sustained numerous ankle and leg injuries after they allowed the victim to fall in the shower...

Cahokia, Illinois Nursing Home Resident Suffers Injury as a Result of Employee Error

Posted on May 16, 2010
The Madison Record is reporting a case of serious Illinois nursing home abuse. A Cahokia woman is claiming that nursing home employees at St. Paul's Home in Belleville, IL allowed her to sustain numerous injuries while she was a resident. The victim filed the nursing home lawsuit in St...

Jury Finds Nursing Home Negligence and Grants $28 Million in Punitive Damages

Posted on May 13, 2010
A jury has determined that a nursing home needs to pay $28 million in punitive damages after being found responsible for a woman?s death. The jury found that both the nursing home company and their parent company were guilty of elder abuse in the death of a 79-year-old resident...

Nursing Home Neglect Forces Changes in Facility

Posted on May 12, 2010
Go San Angelo Standard-Times is reporting that an assisted living facility has been cited in relation to a nursing home neglect incident where a resident froze to death outside the building. The 89-year-old resident wrongfully died of hypothermia. The nursing home failed to adequately supervise the resident, jeopardizing her safety...

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Nursing Home Reform Bill sent to Illinois Governor

Posted on May 10, 2010
The Illinois Senate has given an overwhelming amount of support to Illinois nursing home legislation that will overhaul the standards for care and safety in Illinois troubled nursing homes. This new legislation was written after a Chicago Tribune investigation that revealed a great number of attacks, rapes and murders in nursing homes that mixed elderly residents with convicted felons...

Nursing Home is Closed after Disgusting Violations are Discovered.

Posted on May 08, 2010
NBC news is reporting that surprise inspections by a state?s investigators found deplorable living conditions at a nursing home. This nursing home is now closing its doors to all residents. These surprise inspections found 37 pages of nursing home violations...

Celebrate National Nursing Home Week Next Week

Posted on May 05, 2010
May 9-15 has been declared National Nursing Home Week by the American Health Care Association. This is an important week because every year thousands of nursing home residents become victims of elderly abuse and neglect. This week is a good week to reflect on what everyone can do to better protect these vulnerable residents...

Case Law Update: Nursing Home Arbitration

Posted on May 04, 2010
Carter v. SSC Odin Operating Company, No. 106511 (4-15-10) found that the public policy underlying antiwaiver provisions of Nursing Home Care Act are not "grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract" within meaning of Section 2 of Federal Arbitration Act...

Fourth Lawsuit Filed Against LaSalle County Nursing Home

Posted on May 02, 2010
MyWebtimes.com is reporting that a fourth lawsuit has been filed against LaSalle County Nursing Home for nursing home abuse. The nursing home lawsuit was brought on behalf of a 90-year-old former resident of the home who claims that she was sexually assaulted by a male resident at the facility...

Interrupting a Nursing Home Employee May Lead to Medication Errors

Posted on April 30, 2010
A new study has shown that nurses are more likely to commit medication errors when they are interrupted while they work. This study is extremely applicable to nursing homes, where distractions are an everyday occurrence. This is the first study to show that interruptions and medication errors are linked...

Illinois Attorney General Leads South Side Nursing Home Sweep

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Illinois State Attorney General Lisa Madigan led a team of state and local law enforcement officials in a sweep of Presidential Pavilion on Chicago?s south side. The nursing home sweep was planned to find wanted criminals at the nursing home...

Health Bill Focuses on Elder Abuse

Posted on April 27, 2010
The new health care law has many benefits for the American people. One important group of individuals that are set to gain from the law is the elderly. The health care law contains a provision for $777 million that will be spread over the next four years...

Aurora Nursing Home May Lose License Due to Resident Neglect

Posted on April 27, 2010
Fox River Pavilion, a nursing home in Aurora, IL, may become the second Illinois nursing home to lose its license in recent months. According to a report in the Belleville News Democrat, Illinois Department of Public Health regulators have fined the nursing home over $30,000 recently because of allegations that the nursing home failed to provide proper supervision to its residents...

GAO Releases Nursing Home Study and Identifies SFF

Posted on April 25, 2010
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is reporting that they are now notifying those nursing homes who are candidates to become Special Focus Facilities (SFF). SFFs are chosen from among the 15 worst-scoring nursing home in each individual state...

Somerset Place Gives Up License

Posted on April 23, 2010
The Chicago Defender is reporting that the Chicago nursing home of Somerset Place has had to give up their nursing home license. They also have to pay fines that will total $20,000. Until their closure, Somerset Place had more than 300 mentally ill residents housed in the facility...

Moneymaking Scheme Leaves Nursing Home Patients Crime Victims

Posted on April 21, 2010
Chicago investigators have discovered that one nursing home employee was using nursing home residents to gain kickbacks and monetary bribes. These investigators, along with The Chicago Tribune, uncovered a web of corruption that found thousands of dollars flowing through doctors, nursing home executives and hospital administrators...

Money Making Scheme Revealed in Chicago Nursing Homes

Posted on April 21, 2010
Federal investigators have discovered that a nursing home doctor who treated many Illinois nursing home residents was using referrals to gain kickbacks and monetary bribes, endangering the safety and well-being of those under his care. These investigators, along with The Chicago Tribune, uncovered that thousands of dollars were moving between physicians, nursing home owners and hospital administrators, all the while nursing homes focused on keeping populations up and nursing home beds full...

Staffing Increases Will Help Prevent Abuse and Neglect in Illinois Nursing Homes

Posted on April 20, 2010
Illinois legislators and advocates for nursing home residents will meet today to discuss a very important topic in nursing home reform: staffing. Our Chicago nursing home attorneys support measures to increase minimum staffing levels and believe that doing so will help to improve resident well-being and reduce the occurence of abuse and neglect in nursing homes throughout Illinois...

Lawsuit Alleges Nursing Home Abuse in LaSalle County, Illinois Nursing Home

Posted on April 19, 2010
Another nursing home abuse lawsuit has been filed against LaSalle County Nursing Home in Ottawa, Illinois. The lawsuit comes after it was revealed that a number of older female residents were assaulted by a male resident who had a past history of sexual offenses...

Top Ten Things Nursing Homes Will Not Tell You

Posted on April 18, 2010
It is very difficult to choose the right nursing home when making the difficult decision to place a family member within the facility. Many nursing homes will hide some important aspects that are crucial to this decision. The next ten statements are things that you need to investigate because a nursing home will never tell you...

Important Things Nursing Homes Probably Will Not Tell You

Posted on April 18, 2010
According to an article from SmartMoney.com, it is very difficult to choose the right nursing home when making the difficult decision to place a family member into long-term care. Many nursing homes will hide some important aspects that are crucial to this decision...

Case Law Update: Nursing Home Care Act

Posted on April 17, 2010
Vincent v. Alden-Park Strathmoor, Inc., No. 2-09-0625 (4-7-10) found that common law punitive damages are not available in action by estate of deceased nursing home resident based on Survival Act for willful and wanton violations of Nursing Home Care Act...

Nursing Home Lawsuit Filed After Victim Develops Pressure Ulcers

Posted on April 16, 2010
A victim of nursing home neglect has filed a lawsuit after she experienced unnecessary pain from a pressure sore on her lower backside. The pressure ulcer had grown to the width of a grapefruit and was an inch deep, according to The Arizona Daily Star...

Illinois Lawyer is Charged with Financial Exploitation

Posted on April 15, 2010
Thetelegraph.com is reporting that authorities have charged an Alton, Illinois attorney with embezzling more than $137,000 from an elderly woman. The attorney had met this woman at a church and offered to help her obtain a payment for her probate case in which she was a litigant...

Mentally Ill Need to Be Cared for in their Own Homes, Not Just Nursing Homes

Posted on April 13, 2010
Those diagnosed with mental illnesses are oftentimes placed in nursing homes so that they may be closely watched. However, mentally ill patients will thrive better if they are just given extra help finding and keeping an apartment while taking their medications...

Illinois Nursing Home Reform Must Occur

Posted on April 09, 2010
Recently a long-term care ombudsman wrote to the State Journal-Register to discuss the importance of nursing home reform, a sentiment shared by many advocacy groups. The AARP, Illinois Citizens for Better Care, and Next Steps are all backing Illinois Senate Bill 685, which advocates a proposal to fix the quality of care in nursing homes...

New Alzheimer?s Disease Test Offers Hope of Early Detection

Posted on April 09, 2010
A new test offers hope that Alzheimer?s Disease can be diagnosed and treated at an earlier stage. The Journal of Alzheimer?s Disease reports in its April issue that researchers have developed a new test, called a computerized self test, to detect brain conditions such as Alzheimer?s Disease...

Pressure Ulcers Too Common in Nursing Homes

Posted on April 09, 2010
Pressure ulcers have become all too commonplace in nursing homes and can be not only bothersome for patients but deadly as well. The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has come up with many ways to treat pressure sores early. One of the main suggestions that they have is to properly educate those who are dealing with the elderly...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: South Shore Nursing & Rehab Center

Posted on April 06, 2010
South Shore Nursing & Rehab Center in Chicago, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $15,000 after inspectors found that the nursing home was negligent when it did not properly supervise nursing services. Inspectors also found that some residents were wandering...

Nursing Home Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Abuse at Chateau Village

Posted on April 06, 2010
A nursing home abuse lawsuit has been filed in Cook County Circuit Court against a Willowbrook nursing home. According to The Doings Weekly the lawsuit alleges that the nursing home had failed to protect one of their residents from being sexually assaulted by another resident last May...

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