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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Nursing Home Employee Accused of Rape

Posted on July 20, 2009
An employee at a nursing home accused of raping a patient is facing felony charges. The man was charged with second-degree rape, a felony, and endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person. The man is accused of having sexual intercourse with a female patient who has a mental disability...

Nursing Home Employee Charged with forgery

Posted on July 19, 2009
Three people associated with a nursing home reported checks being stolen from their checkbooks, and an employee of that nursing home was arrested in connection with the nursing home thefts and forgery. The employee was arrested and charged with eight counts of forgery...

Illinois Agencies Shed Light on Elder Abuse

Posted on July 17, 2009
According to the estimates by the Illinois Department on Aging, as many as 80,000 people are victims of elderly abuse each year. Due to these staggering numbers, the Department has declared July to be Elder Abuse Awareness Month. Along with them, McHenry County state?s attorney Louis Bianchi has been working with the elderly on a local level through presentations and distributing information packets...

Registration Open for AAJ?s Litigating Nursing Home Cases Seminar

Posted on July 17, 2009
American Association for Justice?s Litigating Nursing Home Cases Seminar is scheduled for October 17-18 in Chicago, Illinois. The program, which is a ?must? for new nursing home negligence attorneys, is an invaluable resource for plaintiff attorneys...

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Woman Files Nursing Home Negligent Lawsuit against Owner for $2.9 million

Posted on July 15, 2009
A woman is suing the owner of two assisted living facilities for more than $2.9 million in damages, alleging he violated state regulations by using her personal checking account for nearly 5 years. The woman was a resident in two assisted living facilities during the five year span...

Nursing Home Patient Claims Abuse by Nurse?s Aide

Posted on July 14, 2009
A 92-year-old World War II veteran living in a nursing home claims he was assaulted last month by a nurse?s aide. The man claims the elderly abuse occured when he was assaulted during the early-morning hours by a female employee, who allegedly grabbed the resident by his ears and began slamming his head into the mattress...

Family Accuses Illinois Nursing Home of Abuse

Posted on July 13, 2009
The family of a disabled man and woman filed a nursing home abuse lawsuit against a Norridge, Illinois nursing home claiming the victim was physically assaulted multiple times during her stay at the facility. The four-count lawsuit also claims the man was given incorrect medications...

Illinois Nursing Home Committee Chairman Discusses Sex Abuse Report

Posted on July 12, 2009
The Illinois nursing home committee chairman whose home has recently been accused of having 10 nursing home residents sexually abused agreed to talk to reporters about the allegations. He stated that after reading the report that continued the elderly abuse allegations he contacted fellow board members to determine what to do...

Pressure Ulcer Prevention Diet

Posted on July 11, 2009
Studies show that malnourished residents are twice as likely as well-nourished ones to develop pressure ulcers. Experts believe that good nutrition is an integral part of pressure ulcer management. Experts say that consuming an adequate number of calories to meet the body?s needs is imperative to maintaining good nutritional status...

Results of First Nursing Assistant Survey Published

Posted on July 10, 2009

Illinois Nursing Home Allowed Sexual Abuse

Posted on July 10, 2009
The LaSalle County Nursing Home failed to prevent a male resident from sexually abusing 10 female residents and positioning others, some who couldn?t speak or suffered from dementia, according to allegations in a report from the Illinois Department of Health...

National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care Puts out Newsletter

Posted on July 08, 2009
The NCCNHR?s monthly newsletter is focusing on ways to survive nursing home budget cuts. Also the newsletter discusses ways that ombudsmen are trying to combat elderly abuse. The bill touches on state?s nursing home legislation including Illinois?s laws voiding arbitration agreement...

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Urges New Legislation

Posted on July 08, 2009
When Congress returns, the health care reform battle will begin in earnest. The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) is urging the public to keep up the pressure and intensify efforts so that the nursing home legislation will be passed. The NAELA hopes that people will call their U...

NCCNHR Advocacy Efforts Move Forward to Pass Nursing Home Transparency Law

Posted on July 07, 2009
After US House and Senate members return from the July 4 recess next week to begin writing their final health care reform bills. The NCCNHR is pushing that nursing home legislation be an important part of that bill. At the White House, the NCCNHR is urging the Obama Administration to support the transparency provisions in health care reform...

Chicago Nursing Home Fails Sprinkler Test

Posted on July 06, 2009
The Grove at Lincoln Park may have a five star rating, but it also has seven fire-related violations including sprinklers that were not maintained in working order. The Arbour Health Care Center also received a five-star rating, despite an inspection last year that turned up four fire deficiencies...

Three Illinois Nursing Homes Receive High Marks

Posted on July 06, 2009
U.S. News and World Report recently unveiled the Best Nursing Homes Honor Roll, a list of nursing homes throughout the country that received five-star ratings in health inspections, staffing, and quality measures resident care. The list is part of the magazine?s larger efforts to rate nursing homes across the United States...

Jury Awards a Groundbreaking Verdict in Elder Abuse and Neglect Case

Posted on July 05, 2009
A jury as unanimously awarded a plaintiff nearly $1.34 million for the reckless nursing home abuse and neglect that the suffered in the hands of her nursing home provided. The jury awarded $88,000 for past medical bills, $500,000 in general damages and $750,000 in punitive damages...

Study Shows that More Mentally Ill are Admitted to Nursing Homes than Those with Dementia

Posted on July 05, 2009
A recent nursing home population analysis found that the number of first-time nursing home residents admitted with mental illness has far surpassed the number of those with dementia and Alzheimer?s. The number of nursing home residents admitted with a mental illness rose from 168,721 to 187,478...

Study Warns of Hazards for Elderly Using Walking Aids

Posted on July 05, 2009
A study shows that about 47,000 elderly Americans are treated in emergency rooms each year from falls associated with walkers and canes. An epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated that walking aids can be a hazard if not used properly...

Appellate Court Recognizes New Cause of Action for Civil Rights Violations at Nursing Home

Posted on July 04, 2009
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Federal Nursing Home Reform Amendments give residents of county-run nursing homes the right to bring civil rights claims under Section 1983 to challenge the quality of their treatment. The court says that these provisions make clear that nursing homes must provide a basic level of service and care for residents and Medicaid patients...

NCCNHR Examines the Role of Nurses in Nursing Home ?Culture Change?

Posted on July 02, 2009
The National Citizen?s Coalition for Nursing Home Reform has joined with Geriatric Nursing Centers in order to develop quality care for Nursing Homes. The important and complex role of nursing in culture change is examined in the newly released issue paper entitled Nurses? Involvement in Nursing Home Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities...

Expose shows that Quality of Care in Black Seniors? Nursing Home is Drastically Behind that of White Seniors

Posted on July 01, 2009
While Cynthia and Earl Wade look through a photo album, they remember their mother who was rushed to an emergency room less than 10 days into her stay at the International Nursing and Rehab Center. Their mother had explicit instructions on her medical chart not to administer dialysis through her left arm...

Nursing Home is Cited after Resident wasn?t Helped after Fall

Posted on July 01, 2009
A nursing home that caters to those with Alzheimer?s disease has been cited for the second time in five months for endangering the lives of residents by failing to property care for them. The nursing home received a ?Type A? citation, which is the most serious, and a fine for $5,000 after the nursing home negligence...

Nurse?s Assistant Pleads Guilty to Abusing Patient

Posted on July 01, 2009
A nurse?s assistant admitted Friday she abused a patient in her care at a nursing home. The woman pled guilty to one count of misdemeanor abuse of a vulnerable adult. The nursing assistant had physically abused a patient by striking their buttocks. The patient was bruised and ?visibly shaken by the event? but ?wasn?t seriously injured physically...

Attorney Steven Levin and Clients Cynthia and Earl Wade Discussed in Nursing Home Negligence Feature

Posted on June 30, 2009
Attorney Steven Levin of Levin & Perconti was featured in a Chicago Reporter article that highlights the differences in care received in black seniors? homes when compared to white seniors. Attorney Levin is representing Cynthia and Earl Wade in their suit against International Nursing and Rehab Center...

New Requirements Look to Improve Quality of Life for Nursing Home Residents

Posted on June 30, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently released a new set of requirements that focus on improving the quality of life for nursing home residents. According to the CMS Acting Administrator Charlene Frizzera, ?The improvements in the guidance are intended to support efforts underway to transform nursing homes into environments that are more like their homes through both environmental changes and resident-centered caregiving...

Chicago Nursing Home Attorney Steven Levin and Clients Discussed in Nursing Home Negligence Feature

Posted on June 30, 2009
Chicago personal injury lawyer Steve Levin of Levin & Perconti was featured in a Chicago Reporter article that highlights the differences in care received in black seniors? homes when compared to white seniors. Attorney Levin is representing Cynthia and Earl Wade in their suit against International Nursing and Rehab Center...

Families in Elder Abuse Case Use Networks to Cope

Posted on June 28, 2009
The families of alleged elder abuse victims are reaching out on social networking websites to spread the message of reform in long-term care facilities across the country. The families, who have formed under a group called Families Against Nursing Home Abuse, have pages on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace...

Westshire Nursing & Rehab Center

Posted on June 27, 2009
Westshire Nursing & Rehab Center in Cicero, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine of $35,000 after inspectors found that the nursing home did not prevent pressure sores. Additionally, an inspector found that a resident had a diaper soiled with feces...

Man Imprisoned for Sexually Assaulting Patients

Posted on June 26, 2009
A man who was once entrusted with the care of the elderly is now behind bars after being accused of sexually assaulting three female patients at an assisted living facility. The man is charged with three counts of sexual assault in the third degree. According to court documents he pinched three women?s bare breasts...

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