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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Somerset Place Possibly Closing

Posted on January 22, 2010
State and federal authorities have warned the Chicago nursing home Somerset Place that it will be shut down unless it quickly fixes its safety breaches. They claim that these breaches put ?the health and safety of?residents in immediate jeopardy.? A 10-day investigation led the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to warn Somerset Place that it would be terminated in 23 days unless the problems were corrected...

Mandatory Arbitration Should be Banned from Nursing Homes

Posted on January 19, 2010
The American Association for Justice won a long fought battle when Congress banned defense contractors from including mandatory arbitration in their contracts. Now it is time for Congress to rule that binding arbitration should not be allowed in nursing home patient contracts...

Illinois Task Force Proposes Sweeping Reforms to End Violence in Chicago?s Troubled Homes

Posted on January 18, 2010
A panel appointed by Illinois governor Quinn proposed a great deal of reforms that are designed to end the chronic violence and elderly abuse that plague many Illinois nursing homes. Also, the panel is brainstorming ways to foster better treatment for people with serious mental illness living in nursing homes...

Nursing Home Transparency Important Aspect of Health Care Reform

Posted on January 18, 2010
The most discussed legislation of late is the pressing health care reform bills currently being debated in Congress. Two important aspects of this legislation are nursing transparency and improvement and criminal background checks. Currently the Senate bill contains the Elder Justice Act and advocates are working to ensure that this is a provision that is included in the final legislation...

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Johnson & Johnson Receives Kickbacks for Nursing Home Prescriptions

Posted on January 17, 2010
A recently filed Justice Department lawsuit alleges that Johnson & Johnson paid tens of million of dollars in kickbacks to boost sales of its drugs in nursing homes. One of these drugs included an antipsychotic that can be used as a chemical restraint...

Illinois Nursing Home Disputes Low Marks

Posted on January 16, 2010
Four of Danville?s five nursing homes rank at the bottom of the new Medicare-sponsored ratings systems. The five star rating system helps families chose the best facility. It uses a mix of data and rates the nursing homes from one to five stars. The administrators at the facilities believe they are running five star facilities...

Chicago Lawyers Levin & Perconti File Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit against The Renaissance at 87th

Posted on January 15, 2010
Chicago nursing home attorneys Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby of Levin & Perconti filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against the Renaissance at 87th Nursing Home in Chicago. The nursing home lawsuit alleges that the 92-year-old African-American woman died because the nursing home failed to properly care for her gastric tube...

Nursing Home Company to Pay Criminal and Civil Penalties

Posted on January 15, 2010
A nursing home company who left some residents? pressure wounds untreated for so long that maggots infested the wounds are now required to pay civil and criminal fines. The US attorney?s office also stated that the staff did not bathe, adequately feed or provide toileting for people...

Illinois Governor Panel Proposes Sweeping Nursing Home Reform

Posted on January 15, 2010
An Illinois nursing home panel appointed by the Governor proposed an array of reforms that are designed to end the chronic violence and nursing home abuse that plagues the elderly. The panel is also trying to foster better treatment for better treatment for people with serious mental illness living in nursing homes...

Chicago Aldermen Discuss Tougher Oversight for Nursing Homes

Posted on January 14, 2010
Chicago aldermen stated that they were considering steps to strengthen oversight of troubled nursing homes that admit high numbers of felons and psychiatric patients. The city began focusing on felons and psychiatric patients in nursing homes after the Chicago Tribune published a series that exposed cases of rape and murder in nursing homes that mix criminals with the elderly...

What Makes a Great Nursing Home

Posted on January 13, 2010
In a typical year more than 3.2 million Americans will spend at least some time in a nursing home. The U.S. News ranks and displays data about almost every nursing home in the country. They rely on the Nursing Home Compare which is a program run by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Doctor Chastised Over Nursing Home Negligence

Posted on January 12, 2010
A physician has been reprimanded by the state medical registration board for elderly negligence. The doctor mishandled the care of an 88-year-old man when he changed his medications. He also failed to inform the victim?s cardiologist and gave the patient ?unrealistic instructions? for handling his own medicines...

Drug Company Uses Drugs to Prevent Dementia

Posted on January 10, 2010
Last year, Eli Lilly, which markets the drug Zyprexa, paid a $1.4 billion fine and pled guilty to a misdemeanor for promoting its drug to the elderly with dementia. The pill had never been approved for that use. However, many nursing homes use the drugs in order to chemical restrain patients...

Chicago Lawyers Reach a Record Settlement against Coles County Nursing Home Settlement

Posted on January 10, 2010
The Chicago nursing home lawyers at Levin & Perconti recently reached the largest nursing home settlement in a case against a nursing home in Coles, County IL. The Prairie View Center in Charleston, IL and a doctor agreed to pay $700,000 to the family of a 43-year-old victim who died from injuries he suffered while he was a resident a the nursing home...

Chicago Nursing Home Neglect Lawyers Reach Settlement for Bedrail Entrapment Death

Posted on January 09, 2010
Levin and Perconti has reached a settlement with a south suburban nursing home after a victim died when her neck became entrapped between her bedrail and mattress at the nursing home. Attorneys Steven Levin and Michael Bonamarte represented the family and reached a $570,000 settlement for the adult grandchildren of a 99-year-old resident...

Report Faults Nursing Home for Abuse

Posted on January 09, 2010
As many as 10 residents at a nursing home may have been victims of elderly abuse at the hands of an employee who has since been fired. The skilled nursing facility was cited after inspectors surveyed the nursing home according to the department?s report...

Restrictions Sought in Illinois for Chemical Restraints in Nursing Homes

Posted on January 08, 2010
Nursing home resident advocates in Illinois are pushing for new rules on the use of antipsychotic drugs among nursing home residents. This would prevent the misuse of the drugs as a form of chemical restraint in nursing homes. A grassroots organization that fights to improve nursing home care in the state, entitled Illinois Citizens for Better Care, is pushing for new state laws and regulations that would prevent nursing homes and doctors from using antipsychotic and psychotropic drugs as a form of chemical restraint on the elderly residents...

Illinois Nursing Home Failed to Prevent a Resident?s Drowning

Posted on January 08, 2010
The brother of a deceased man blames a nursing home for his brother?s drowning death when the victim was taking a bath. The man filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against Community Living Options doing business as Edwardsville Terrace. The lawsuit alleges that the brother and his have suffered grief, sorrow and mental suffering...

Family Files Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit

Posted on January 07, 2010
A family has filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit claiming that the 51-year-old wrongfully died as a result of the nursing home abuse. The family alleges that the victim was abused while residing at the nursing home. They also allege the nursing home left her malnourished...

Three Nursing Home Patients are Killed by Chemical Restraints

Posted on January 06, 2010
An attorney general is saying that a nursing home director has drugged his patients in order to control them. Residents at the nursing home began complaining when the director chemically restrained them with powerful anti-psychotic drugs. Prosecutors say that her methods were so severe that three residents died...

Woman Arrested on Charges of Financial Elder Abuse

Posted on January 05, 2010
A woman suspected of stealing $2,800 from a group of nuns has been arrested on additional charges of financial elder abuse and grand theft. The police have reason to believe that there are additional victims of the financial abuse. She allegedly stole donations from a group of local nuns who were evicted from their convent to free up money for a sex abuse settlement involving the Archdioceses...

New Illinois Nursing Home Report Expected in January

Posted on January 04, 2010
Authorities saw mentally ill residents in Chicago nursing homes crowded three and four to a room, observed residents wandering hallways and saw very little therapy. This prompted member of an Illinois task force to turn away surprised and dismayed. It was especially true when it came to homes that housed the mentally ill...

Nursing Home agrees to pay $19 Million in Damages for Patient Neglect

Posted on January 04, 2010
A Brooklyn nursing home will have to pay nearly $19 million in damages to the family of a 76-year-old patient neglected so badly that he left the home with more than 20 bedsores. The award was handed down by a jury and is the first in the state to include punitive damages...

La Salle County Nursing Home may Fire Administrator

Posted on January 03, 2010
La Salle County is nearing a decision on hiring a full-time administrator for its nursing home. A group of county officials have implemented a new hiring practice for appointed positions during the search for a new nursing home administrator. The board chairman said he expects to announce a new nursing home administrator in the coming weeks and have that person working soon...

Illinois Nursing Home Fined

Posted on January 02, 2010
A Jacksonville, Illinois nursing home has agreed to pay a $6,500 fine over accusations of elderly abuse and negligence. Golden Moments Senior Care Center at 1021 N. Church Street and the Illinois Department of Public Health has agreed the nursing home will pay the fine...

Reform Care for Mentally Ill

Posted on January 01, 2010
The Chicago Tribune?s Compromised Care has sparked new interest in ways the state could improve care for people who are severely mentally ill. The Illinois Psychiatric Society believes that Illinois should overhaul how it provides care for people who are severely mentally ill by redirecting its funding to programs that are proved to help...

Woman Sentenced to 15 Years in Illinois Nursing Home Theft

Posted on December 31, 2009
An Illinois judge has handed down a 15-year-prison sentence to a Quincy, Illinois woman who admitted to bilking a nursing home out of $14,500. The defendant pleaded guilty last month to stealing form the North Adams Home in Mendon. She was charged with forgery, theft and obstruction of justice...

Dementia Patient Wanders Out of Nursing Home

Posted on December 30, 2009
A resident who suffered from dementia wandered out of a nursing home and was found more than two hours later, roaming in the snow and ice and subfreezing weather. The 68-year-old woman was rescued by members of the sheriff?s department. She uses a walker get around and was found behind the nursing home wearing just a golf shirt, pants and shoes...

State Cites Nursing Home for Neglect

Posted on December 28, 2009
State Investigators say a woman recovering from spine surgery died of a massive stroke in June after a nursing home failed to give her a medication prescribed to prevent blood clots. The doctor?s order was incorrectly transcribed by a nurse at the nursing home...

Raids Target Felons in Chicago Nursing Homes

Posted on December 28, 2009
Federal, state and county officials swept two Chicago-area nursing homes for felons with outstanding arrest warrants and identified 18 residents wanted on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to burglary to assault. The early morning raids were initiated by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in response to Chicago tribune reports about Illinois nursing facilities that house high numbers of felons and sex offenders...

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