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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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

Nursing Home Sued in Man?s Death

Posted on March 06, 2009
The family of a 54-year-old man who wrongfully died after a six-day stay in a nursing home is suing the facility. The family?s attorney said nurses failed to assess and monitor the man?s respiratory condition or to suction him. The nursing home has faced several federal sanctions in the past two years...

Lawyer Alleges Negligence in Nursing Home Death

Posted on March 06, 2009
A jury started hearing arguments in a wrongful death lawsuit in which the family of a 90-year-old woman claims the nursing home where she lived was negligent in her care and caused her death. They contend that she received inadequate care during her stay at the nursing home...

Woman Claims Home Health Aide?s ?Kidnapped? Mom

Posted on March 05, 2009

Call-In Supports Long-Term Care Reform

Posted on March 03, 2009

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Bush?s Lawsuit Restrictions Add to Risk in Nursing Homes

Posted on March 03, 2009

Family of Abused Patient Forgives Living Center that was fined $129,000

Posted on March 02, 2009

Nursing Home Aide is Accused of Abuse

Posted on March 01, 2009

State Passes Bill that Requires Pressure Redistribution Mattresses

Posted on February 28, 2009

One in Ten Nursing Home Residents Had Pressure Sores

Posted on February 28, 2009

New Rule Impedes Cases against Nursing Home

Posted on February 28, 2009

Agreement to Waive a Trial against a Nursing Home is not a Good Idea

Posted on February 27, 2009

Nursing Home Fined after Sandwich Choking Death

Posted on February 27, 2009

Bush?s Last Minute Legislation Greatly Impacts Nursing Homes

Posted on February 27, 2009

Nursing Home Watchdogs were muted by Bush Regulation

Posted on February 26, 2009

Nursing Home Operator?s CEO gets Salary despite Bankruptcy

Posted on February 25, 2009
One of the nation?s largest assisted-living facility operator?s has been asked to pay its former CEO up to $54,000 a month while development projects liked to the company have stalled. The CEO founded the company that defaulted on numerous loans after it began running out of cash last year and could not get any more credit...

3 Employees Arrested in Nursing Home Deaths

Posted on February 23, 2009
Some investigators are describing a recent elder abuse case as the most outrageous that has even been seen. According to authorities three top managers at a nursing home have been arrested in the deaths of three residents who allegedly were given needless doses of psychotropic medications...

Dementia?s Dangers are Often Overlooked

Posted on February 23, 2009
Nursing homes are facing more challenges as they admit residents with dementia who are prone to have combative outburst. In one case a 97 year old man was thrown to the floor by a former wrestler, resulting in his death. While this incident may seem beyond control, some advocates say nursing homes could do a better job of reducing the risks of

Court Orders Tour of Nursing Home

Posted on February 21, 2009
A court has ordered the inspection of an Illinois nursing home that allowed a resident to wander out into the cold and die in January. The inspection comes in connection with the wrongful death lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of 89-year-old Sarah Wentworth...

Man Sues Nursing Home After Mother?s Death

Posted on February 20, 2009
A man who lost his mother to a serious fall at a nursing home has decided to bring the elderly negligence to the attention of lawmakers and health regulators. The man believes that the nursing home is responsible for the wrongful death of his mother...

Nursing Home Staff Lethally Drugged Patients

Posted on February 20, 2009
Three elderly Alzheimer?s patients are believed to have died after being injected with psychotropic drugs by nursing home staff trying to keep them quiet. The state?s attorney general revealed the deaths after announcing the arrests of a nurse, a physician and a pharmacist from a nursing facility...

Legislative Update: Nursing Home Care Act

Posted on February 20, 2009
The Nursing Home Care Act, House Bill 748, requires requires nursing homes to do a number of things within 30 days' admission of new residents and within one year for all residents. Residents, agents, and surrogates must be given (1) written information describing the facility's policies about DNR orders; (2) an opportunity to execute a living will or power of attorney for Health Care; (3) an opportunity to decline consent to life-sustaining treatment; and (4) provide the facility with the name of a preferred surrogate if the resident becomes incapacitated or impaired...

Charges Expected in Nursing Home Resident?s Death

Posted on February 19, 2009
Criminal charges are expected in the case of a nursing home resident who was found frozen to death outside. Authorities now believe that that woman may have been the victim of elderly neglect and a cover-up. The three daughters of the woman have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Illinois nursing home...

Nursing Home Aide Charged with Patient Assault

Posted on February 18, 2009
A former worker at a nursing home has been charged with sexually molesting a patient while another patient slept in that same room. Prosecutors said that the 46-year-old worker sexually assaulted the 62-year-old woman who had recently suffered a stroke at the nursing home...

Nursing Home Covers-up Neglect

Posted on February 18, 2009
An employee at an Illinois nursing home was too absorbed by an episode of ?Dog the Bounty Hunter? to respond to a security door alarm sound. The alarm was most likely triggered by the electronic bracelet worn by an 89-year-old resident who wandered outside the nursing home...

Nursing Home Loses Medicare and Medicaid Funding

Posted on February 16, 2009
After a nursing center was cited for numerous serious deficiencies from the state Health Department, the home lost their Medicare and Medicaid funding. The nursing home has been targeted by the nonprofit, patient advocacy group, A Perfect Cause. The agency offered a $2,500 reward for information about the alleged assault of a former resident...

Nursing Home Found at Fault in Death of 91-year-old Woman

Posted on February 15, 2009
An investigative report released by a state?s department of health faulted a nursing home for the death of a 91 year old woman. The state investigation reached the conclusion that the woman?s death was preceded by a fracture of her cervical spine that could not occur without a violent incident of fall...

Family Files Suit Against Lemont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center and Care Centers, Inc.

Posted on February 14, 2009
Chicago person injury attorneys Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby of Levin & Perconti have filed a nursing home abuse and neglect complaint in Cook County Circuit Court against Lemont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Lemont IL and Care Centers, Inc...

Woman Freezes to Death outside Nursing Home

Posted on February 13, 2009
The family of a nursing home resident who froze to death outside is looking for answers. While the police are currently investigating the death, her family is outraged. Her daughter states that her mother?s greatest fear was to be alone and cold, which is the way she wrongfully died...

Family Files Suit after Illinois Woman Freezes to Death

Posted on February 13, 2009
A woman who was too frail to get out of bed or change her clothes without assistance ended up leaving her Itasca nursing home last week and freezing to death in the courtyard. The family has now filed a lawsuit alleging elderly neglect and abuse on the part of The Arbor of Itasca, the nursing home where the woman had lived for more than two years...

Lawyers speak out about Failing Nursing Homes

Posted on February 13, 2009
A trial lawyer who was represented many victims of elderly abuse and neglect has seen enough in America?s 15,000 nursing homes. After a report by the Department of Health and Human Services found that 94% of America?s nursing homes violated federal and health safety standards it is obvious that the elderly are suffering and nothing is being done...

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