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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

By Levin & Perconti

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Last Entry: November 03, 2020 at 10:01:32

House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Unfair Binding Arbitration Clauses

Posted on September 18, 2009
Lawmakers and consumers testified before a House subcommittee, calling for new legislation restricting the ability of companies to force customers into mandatory binding arbitration when disputes arise. The new legislation will help protect elderly access to the courts in cases against nursing homes...

Briarbrook Place

Posted on September 16, 2009
Briarbrook Place in East Peoria, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $20,000 after inspectors found that staff did not prevent wandering. Inspectors also found that the facility did not have an active medical record for each resident...

Sexual Assault Victim Files Suit against Nursing Home

Posted on September 16, 2009
The guardian for an 82-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted when she was a resident at Parkview Terrace has filed a nursing home lawsuit. The suit was filed in Rock Island County Circuit Court and named the nursing home and its former employee. The nursing home lawsuit stems from a February 1 incident in which the woman was sexually assaulted by the employee, whose job at the nursing home is still unknown...

Care Worker Accused of Assaulting Woman

Posted on September 16, 2009
The police have arrested a young man accused of assaulting a 76-year-old woman at a care home. The police capital stated that a supervisor caught a 19-year-old man sexually assaulting the woman one night last week. Staff members told police that the employee was on an on call, fill-in worker at the nursing home...

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Fight against Mandatory Binding Arbitration

Posted on September 16, 2009
Nursing Home Residents are often asked to signed nursing home contracts that contain mandatory arbitration clauses. When a person signs an arbitration clause they are unable to sue the nursing home even if they are a victim of nursing home abuse. Residents are oftentimes very nervous and busy when they enter a nursing home, and do not have the proper time to review each individual aspect of the contract...

Woman dies in Nursing Home as a result of an Infected Bedsore

Posted on September 15, 2009
A family has filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit after their mother died of an infected bedsore wound. The 73-year-old woman went to the nursing home hoping that it would be a temporary place of healing for her fractured arm. When she tried to leave the nursing home, she was denied an exit because she had a fatal wound...

2009 NCCNHR Annual Meeting & Conference to be held

Posted on September 15, 2009
The 2009 National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care Conference is scheduled for October 22, 2009 until October 25, 3009. It will take place at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC. They have a renewed commitment to achieve ?quality care, no matter where?...

Task Force Gives Advice on How to Protect Seniors

Posted on September 14, 2009
As the wife of Baby Boomers hits 65, the need for elder abuse awareness is hitting an all time high. Elderly people become vulnerable to financial abuse by relatives, caretakers and a range of helpers. Experts in preventing financial exploitation suggest the following safeguards: ? Never advertise for a caretaker, handyman or driver...

Illinois Ombudmen are Vital to Nursing Home Care

Posted on September 14, 2009
Illinois ombudsmen help the staff understand the rights of residents. In order to make sure those residents? rights are upheld, the agency sponsors the Long-Term Ombudsman Program which covers 16 counties in Illinois. It serves residents age 60 in over 139 licensed health facilities, 11 assisted living facilities and seven supportive living facilities...

Levin & Perconti Settles $700,000 Nursing Home Lawsuit after Wrongful Death

Posted on September 14, 2009
Prairie View Care Center in Charleston, IL recently agreed to pay a record $700,000 to the family of a 43-year-old man who died from injuries he suffered while a resident at the nursing home. The settlement is the largest reported settlement against a Coles County nursing home...

Bourbonnais Terrace

Posted on September 14, 2009
Bellefontaine Place in Bourbonnais, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $20,000 after inspectors found that there was nursing home was negligent when it allowed residents to sexually abuse one another. Inspectors also found that resident?s were physically abusing each other as well...

New Legislation Passed To Protect Elderly

Posted on September 12, 2009
Financial abuse by someone that an elderly member trusted is now becoming a lot more difficult to do in one state. New legislation that went into effect radically changed the power-of-attorney document. Legislators believed that this elder abuse legislation comes at the perfect time, since financial abuse is one of the fastest growing areas of elder abuse...

Department of Aging Urges Citizens to Report Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults

Posted on September 12, 2009
Citizens are urged to immediately report the suspected abuse or neglect of an older adult by calling their state?s Elder Abuse Hotline. Also older individuals who are being abused or neglected are also urged to call the hotline. Older adults should have the right to live a life free from abuse and neglect...

Audit Finds Illinois Overcharging for Long-Term Care

Posted on September 11, 2009
An audit says Illinois could be overcharging thousands of nursing home residents who rely on Medicaid to pay long-term care expenses. A report by the Auditor General shows that one patient was overcharged $9,204. The nursing home report says the state?s Healthcare and Family Services and Human Services departments are automatically applying increases in Social Security benefits to care; federal law allows patients to give the money to spouses still living at home...

Shake-up at LaSalle County Nursing Home

Posted on September 11, 2009
Three of the top administrators at the LaSalle County Nursing Home have been either fired or they have resigned. An interim administrator has been hired until a permanent administrator can take over. While nursing home staff could not state why there has been such a change in administration, there is a great deal of speculation...

Investigation Finds Sexual Abuse at Nursing Home While Administrators did Nothing

Posted on September 11, 2009
A 35-year-old man was indicted for sexually abusing four elderly patients at a nursing home. The state?s Board of Nursing has suspended the employee?s license. It was through the help of a resident investigation that the nursing home abuse was discovered...

Family Sues Nursing Home after Fatal Bedsore Leads to Wrongful Death

Posted on September 10, 2009
A 73-year-old woman entered a nursing home in 2005 after she fell and injured her arm, believing it would be a quick month stint for therapy. However, two years later, after repeated denied requests to go home, the woman died due to a horrific infected bedsore...

Bellefontaine Place

Posted on September 10, 2009
Bellefontaine Place in Waterloo, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $20,000 after inspectors found that there was nursing home abuse and neglect at the facility. The inspection revealed that the nursing home did not have sufficient seatbelts when transporting the residents...

One Woman?s Daughter Tries to Document Nursing Home Negligence and Gets Banned from Nursing Home

Posted on September 10, 2009
After a fire broke out in her mother?s room, a woman decided to take pictures in order to document the nursing home abuse. She had received a call from the nursing home that there had been a fire, and that her mother would be moved to another floor. The daughter immediately went to check on her mother and to retrieve her mom?s smoky-smelling clothes for washing...

State Faces Cuts in Nursing Home Care

Posted on September 10, 2009
A new analysis of pending health care reforms by the American Health Care Association says states could face more than $1 billion in cuts over a 10-year period to Medicare-funded nursing home care. According to America?s Affordable Health Choices Act Medicare payments for skilled nursing facilities may significantly decrease...

Alleged Abuse Found at Group Home

Posted on September 09, 2009
Authorities have uncovered what are described as prison camp conditions at a group home housing the elderly. Investigators say the elder abuse took a new form as the seniors, some mentally disabled, were abused, crammed into chicken coops and forced to go to the bathroom in buckets...

Nursing Home and Drug Firms Questioned on Dispensing of Drugs

Posted on September 09, 2009
Several nursing homes may have provided powerful prescription drugs such as Fentanyl and OxyContin to patients without a doctor?s authorization which is a violation of federal rules. The drugs were in labeled ?emergency kit boxes? intended for use when a doctor is not available or when a patient is waiting for a prescription to be filled...

Administrator Charged in Nursing Home Drugging

Posted on September 09, 2009
An administrator has been charged in a case of nursing home negligence, where the residents were allegedly drugged against their will. The administrator was charged with eight felony counts of elder abuse for allowing staff to forcibly administer psychotropic medications to patients for their own convenience, rather than for their patients? therapeutic needs...

Budget Cuts to Reduce Nursing Home Advocate Program

Posted on September 08, 2009
Elderly people across Illinois may suffer when budget cuts are scheduled to take effect October 1. These budget cuts will reduce the number of trained advocates who visit nursing homes to expose and prevent elderly abuse and neglect. The president of the Illinois Association of Long-Term Care Ombudsmen is very worried about the effect that these cuts will have on nursing home care...

Illinois Nursing Homes Faces Investigation

Posted on September 08, 2009
A Jacksonville, Illinois nursing home is alleged to have failed to keep six residents from being mentally, verbally or physically abused. This has prompted $20,000 in fines and a nursing home negligence investigation by the state?s attorney?s office...

Bement Health Care Center

Posted on September 08, 2009
Bement Health Care Center in Bement, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $20,000 after inspectors found nursing home abuse and neglect. Inspectors found that an employee did not report physical and mental abuse that was inflicted upon residents...

Nursing Home is under Criminal Investigation

Posted on September 07, 2009
A criminal investigation is under way after state health officials released a report about elder abuse at a nursing home. According to the nursing home abuse report, three nursing aides pinched, slapped and threw rubber balls at a resident with Alzheimer?s disease and told another resident to ?shut up? while calling him names...

Elderly People Held in Squalid Conditions

Posted on September 06, 2009
Authorities arrested a woman who they say boarded 22 mentally ill, elderly and other people in prison-like conditions, housing some in converted chicken coops behind razor wire fences. The woman was arrested on 16 counts of suspected elder abuse. Many of the people appeared to have mental health issues...

Woman Claims Nursing Home Neglect caused her Mother?s Death

Posted on September 06, 2009
A woman claims a nursing home bears responsibility for her mother?s death. The nursing home negligence lawsuit accuses the nursing home of improperly looking after her mother. It states that the nursing home repeatedly violated the law by failing to assure and provide sufficient nursing home care to her mother...

Caretaker Pleads not Guilty to Stealing From Elderly Employer

Posted on September 05, 2009
A woman pled not guilty today to charges that she financially exploited more than $15,000 for a 93-year-old woman for whom she was employed to provide at-home care. The 49-year-old employee is charged with elder financial abuse by a caretaker, a penalty punishable by up to four years in prison...

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