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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

Plaintiffs Awarded $250,000 in Nursing Home Injury Case

Posted on September 04, 2009
The family of a woman who survived a two-story fall out of a nursing home window has been compensated for their nursing home negligence. The nursing home accident happened six years ago. The 57-year-old cognitively impaired woman tried to leave the nursing home to be with her family...

Nursing Home Workers should be required to get Flu Shots

Posted on September 04, 2009
While state?s Health Department?s are requiring that health care workers be vaccinated for the flu, they are not requiring the same regulation for employees of nursing homes. One particular state?s law requires that nursing home employees get flu shots but allows workers to refuse the vaccine after being informed of the heath risks...

Study shows that Direct Care Workers are Essential to Quality Nursing Home and Home Health Care

Posted on September 03, 2009
The Direct Care Workers (DCWs) are integral to addressing the many elderly family members that live in both nursing homes and need personal care takers. The DCW is also a liaison to the nursing home staff, reporting the care-receiver?s medical and emotional status...

Alden Owns over 40 Illinois Nursing Homes

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Alden Network is an Illinois entity operating over 40 nursing homes within Illinois. Due to the overwhelming amount of nursing homes, you may not recognize a specific home as an Alden Network home. Since the nursing home abuse attorneys at Levin & Perconti have filed a number of lawsuits against Alden homes, we have provided a list of Alden Network homes below...

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Nurse?s Aide Pled Guilty in Elderly Woman?s Death

Posted on September 01, 2009
A former nursing assistant apologized for allowing 89-year-old Sarah Wentworth to freeze to death last winter after she wandered out of her Itasca, Illinois nursing home. The nursing assistant never checked a door alarm that sounded at two in the morning when the elderly woman left the Arbor of Itasca nursing home during zero degree temperatures...

Three People Arrested for Operating Unlicensed Assisted Living Facilities

Posted on August 31, 2009
Three people have been arrested following an investigation by the Medicare Fraud Control Unit. The attorney general announced that three nursing home administrators were arrested on charges that they were operating two different assisted living facilities without licenses...

Elderly Abuse Conference Held

Posted on August 31, 2009
A commission on aging invited service providers and community members participate in an elder abuse conference. The sessions included information about different types of advice and the resources available to victims. At the conference they discussed that the most common type of elder abuse is neglect...

Man Jailed for Touching Two Nursing Home Residents

Posted on August 31, 2009
A former nursing home employee has been sentenced to six months in jail for sexually molesting two residents. The man was also sentenced to five years probation for the elderly abuse. The man pleaded guilty to two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual assault...

Nursing Home Receives Fine after Wrongful Death

Posted on August 30, 2009
A 78-year-old woman died last year because a nursing home failed to properly monitor her medication and failed to check her into an emergency room fast enough when her brain started bleeding. The Department of Health was fined $100,000 after an investigation revealed that the nursing home ignored the worsening condition of a patient admitted a year ago with a hip fracture, heart problem osteoporosis, hypertension and osteoarthritis...

Avenue Care Center

Posted on August 30, 2009
Avenue Care Center in Chicago, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation after inspectors found that residents were wandering from the facility. The inspectors believed that there was not proper procedures implemented to prevent wandering. The Illinois Department of Health produces quarterly reports on nursing home violators...

20-year-old pleads not Guilty in Elder Abuse Case

Posted on August 30, 2009
A 20-year-old former nursing home employee pleaded not guilty to all charges related elder abuse at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home. Her case is no scheduled for a jury trial, and her lawyer is considering change of venue. He is worried about the adverse degree of publicity that occurred after the outrageous nursing home abuse that occurred at the home...

Delayed Plea in Itasca Nursing Home Death

Posted on August 29, 2009
Three women came to the DuPage, Illinois County courthouse looking for justice for the wrongful death of their mother, who died last winter in an Itasca nursing home courtyard after she wandered outside in the cold. However, they left disappointed do to the inability of the nursing home employee to plea because of an ongoing trial...

Nursing Home Employee Charged with Cruelty

Posted on August 29, 2009
A nursing home employee was arrested after the center?s administrator saw the employee push down one of the handicapped patients. The 49-year-old woman was arrested and charged with cruelty to the infirmed. The woman was seen arguing with a handicapped patient and was then seen ?stiff arming? the man who slid across the floor about four to five feet...

State Passes Nursing Home Legislation which Highlights Financial Protection

Posted on August 29, 2009
A state has developed a pill to prevent the financial exploitation of senior citizens. The bill is called the Elder Abuse Protection Plan which is meant to address a surge in elder abuse complaints. The bill makes financially exploiting a vulnerable adult a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison...

Nursing Home Death Leads to $26 Million Lawsuit

Posted on August 29, 2009
After two resident deaths, it became apparent that one nursing home was not operating at an acceptable level. One resident was covered in severe bed sores and developed an infection due to those bed sores. Another resident fell to his death. After a 26 million dollar nursing home negligence lawsuit was filed, investigators began finding more faults with the nursing home...

Nursing Home Employee Charged with Sexual Battery

Posted on August 28, 2009
A nurse?s aide had to quit her position after she complained about elderly abuse and no action was taken. Finally, she contacted an investigator at the attorney general?s office what she saw, an aide molesting two different nursing home patients. The aide has now been indicted on four counts of aggravated sexual battery...

Former Housekeeper Commits Financial Exploitation of Elderly

Posted on August 28, 2009
An elderly abuse lawsuit alleges that a housekeeper cleaned out most of her client?s accounts. It alleges that she took more than $1.4 million from a retired couple with serious medical ailments. The elderly abuse lawsuit claims that the woman bought fancy cruises and a quickie wedding in Vegas with the money she stole from the seniors...

Nursing Home Blamed in Death of Resident

Posted on August 28, 2009
An investigative report showed that a resident hit his head on the floor when he was being transferred from his wheelchair to his bed with a mechanical lift. The man?s death was due to the injuries from the fall. A report from the Health Department found evidence indicating nursing home neglect...

Aurora Rehab & Living Center

Posted on August 28, 2009
Aurora Rehab & Living Center in Aurora, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation after inspectors found that all the doors were not equipped with a signal to alert staff when a person leaves the residency. It was also found that care was inadequate at the nursing home...

Nursing Home Slapped with Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on August 28, 2009
A nursing home is the subject of a wrongful-death lawsuit for the second time in less than a year. The wrongful death suit was filed after a man who had severe mental retardation was taken to the hospital because blood was found in his urine. The wrongful death lawsuit claims that the victim had fallen from his bed because a nurse failed to raise a guardrail, and he hit his head so hard that he had swelling the size of an orange...

Nursing Home Patient Charged with the Murder of another Resident

Posted on August 27, 2009
An 87-year-old man has been charged with killing his 91-year-old fellow resident at a nursing home. The victim was sitting on a bench outside when the resident struck him in the head. The man was taken to hospice where he died of personal injuries. The death was ruled a homicide and he was charged with second-degree murder and first and second-degree assault...

Aspire on Eastern Nursing Home

Posted on August 26, 2009
Aspire on Eastern Nursing Home in Bellwood, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and fines in the amount of $10,000 after inspectors found that resident?s fell in the facilities. The nursing home should create a comprehensive plan to assess a resident?s falling...

Binding Arbitration Clauses Create Havoc in Nursing Home Abuse Cases

Posted on August 26, 2009
Binding arbitration clauses are becoming increasingly more common in society, especially in nursing homes. Many nursing home lawyers are finding that nursing home residents and their families are being faced with mandatory arbitration clauses when they try to take the corporations to court...

Nursing Home Aide is Accused of Assaulting Nursing Home Patient

Posted on August 26, 2009
A nurse?s assistant is accused of using a pillow to silence a patient at a nursing home. The 23-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault on an at-risk victim and misdemeanor neglect of an at-risk victim. The arrest came after a staff member reported allegations of nursing home abuse at the police department...

Nursing Home Arbitration Bill Approaches Senate Markup

Posted on August 25, 2009
The nursing home legislation would ban pre-dispute arbitration agreements now widely used by long-term care facilities. The nursing home bill was passed by the House Judiciary Committee in July. At a joint Senate committee hearing witnesses testified that under pre-dispute agreements, victims of nursing home abuse and neglect discussed how they faced a one-sided dispute resolution system with no public record and no appeal...

Nursing Home Employee Accused of Sexual Abuse

Posted on August 25, 2009
A 29-year-old nursing home employee was arrested after staff caught her engaging in sexual contact with a 60-year-old male patient who suffers from a several mental defect. The employee was charged with felony second-degree endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person and misdemeanor second-degree sex abuse...

Program May Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Posted on August 25, 2009
A 38-year-old woman in fine health decided to enter a nursing home in order to experience the difficulties associated with the specific type of living. The medical student was enrolled in a novel program that allowed her to experience life as a nursing home patient...

Nursing Home Agrees to Pay $1,450 Violation

Posted on August 24, 2009
A state investigation looked into nursing home abuse and neglect into a Devon Gables care facility. It found that there were several civil violations and the nursing home had to pay a $1,450 fine. The 16 violations included: nursing home neglect of patients; faulty administration of medications; failure to report allegations of elder abuse and neglect in documenting renal disease...

Arbor Nursing Home

Posted on August 24, 2009
Arbor Nursing Home in Itasca, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and fines in the amount of $40,000 after inspectors found that the facility did not have policies and procedures in place to ensure resident bed checks were being done. The Department of Health and Human Services also found that the employees did not use the electronic monitoring devise that prevents wandering...

Police Investigate Nursing Home Abuse Claims at Golden Moments Senior Care Center

Posted on August 24, 2009
State police are looking into claims that a nurse?s aide threatened to cut a 68-year-old man?s throat, slapped a woman in the face, taunted and insulted another disabled and sick adults and took food away from a hungry resident of Golden Moments Senior Care Center in Jacksonville, Illinois...

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