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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Nursing home neglect alleged in case where mold was found in 65 year-old?s mouth

Posted on December 07, 2008
A nursing home abuse investigation is alleging that an elderly man in a nursing home was so neglected that he had mold growing out of his mouth. The 65 year-old nursing home neglect victim lives at a nursing home. He cannot speak, but staff at a nearby medical center spoke up and complained about what they saw during a wellness examination and called the authorities...

Case Law Update: Involuntary Administration of Psychotropic Medications

Posted on December 06, 2008
In re Jonathan P, No. 2-07-0610 (11-19-08) reversed the trial court?s decision because respondent's, review of petition for involuntary administration of psychotropic medications is capable of being repeated, yet escaping review, it is not subject to mootness doctrine...

Father Defends Teen Charged in Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on December 05, 2008
The father of one of the teenagers charged with sexually abusing and humiliating numerous vulnerable nursing homes residents believes that the allegations against his daughter are not as distorted as they appear. The comments are the first made by anyone connected to the eight teenage girls who worked a the Good Samaritan Society nursing home, where the elderly abuse is alleged to have happened for several months early this year...

Elder Abuse Awareness Promoted by Famous Actor

Posted on December 04, 2008
Elder abuse occurs not only within bad nursing homes nationwide but also due to negligent care givers. Elder abuse is a concept the nation should be aware of as the aging population is on the rise. Elder abuse can be prevented with awareness, preventive measures and most importantly love...

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Rite Aid to Host Live, Online Chats for Caregivers December 3 -4

Posted on December 03, 2008
On December 3 and 4, Rite Aid will host two free chats, broadcasted live online, featuring advice from geriatric experts and a Rite Aid Pharmacist. These chats, as part of Rite Aid?s ?Giving Care for Parents? program, are aimed at answering caregivers? questions and helping them find solutions to everyday problems...

Unstable Closets Lead to Dangerous Conditions

Posted on December 01, 2008
State investigators recently concluded that dangerous conditions at a county-run nursing home have put residents? health and safety in immediate jeopardy. The report focused on the large closets found in each resident?s room, which tipped over when minimal force was applied...

6 Teens Charged in Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on December 01, 2008
Prosecutors have filed a range of criminal charges against six teens accused of abusing elderly residents at a nursing home. The department of health released a report that showed that 15 elderly residents with Alzheimer?s disease or other dementia disorders were physically abused at the nursing home earlier this year...

Videotape Reveals Abuse at Nursing Home

Posted on November 30, 2008
The family of an 84-year-old resident of a nursing home hid a video camera in the woman?s room after they discovered dozens of bruises all over her body and didn?t get satisfactory answers from the staff. The videotape shows nursing assistants physically abusing and taunting the woman and failing to feed and clean her...

Nursing Home Inspected after 11 deaths in 2008

Posted on November 29, 2008
State health inspectors will increase their oversight and an independent review of the home for the disabled will be conducted in the wake of 11 deaths since January. The nursing home has been fined more than $37,000 by state inspectors including a fine that is tied to the death that was allegedly caused by nursing home negligence...

Nursing home employees steal resident?s ring

Posted on November 28, 2008
In a case of a betraying nursing home abuse, two Midwestern nursing home employees have been accused of stealing a resident?s ring. According to the complaint, one nursing home employee took two rings and told the resident that she was going to get them resized...

Nursing Home is Fined After Employee Abuses Patient

Posted on November 28, 2008
A nursing home was fined after state authorities began investigating a case of elderly abuse. Additionally, state authorities will not allow any new patients to be admitted to the home after the elderly abuse case surfaced. The story surrounds a nursing assistant who committed elderly abuse against a blind patient...

Nursing Home Agrees to Pay $17, 000 Fine

Posted on November 27, 2008
A nursing home has agreed to pay $17,500 in civil penalties for more than two dozen violations, including to protect its resident from sexual abuse. The nursing home was citied for failing to report injuries to the state as required, including falls with cuts or broken bones...

Nursing Home Employees Charged with Theft

Posted on November 26, 2008
Two employees from a nursing home have been charged with stealing and then pawning the engagement ring of an 89-year-old woman. The 27-year-old certified nurse aides were charged with the misdemeanor crimes of petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree...

Former Resident Sues Now-Closed Nursing Home

Posted on November 25, 2008
A man claims he was wrongfully discharged from a now-closed Iowa nursing home and dropped off in an unfurnished apartment with only $30 and four days worth of medications. He is now suing the nursing company alleging elderly negligence and recklessness...

Illinois Nursing Home Accused of Wrongful Death of Elderly Resident

Posted on November 23, 2008
The daughter of an elderly woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an Illinois nursing home, claiming her mother died after being attacked by a patient with violent tendencies. The lawsuit was filed in the Cook County Circuit Court against Lexington Health Care Center of Streamwood, Illinois...

Caretaker arrested after elderly woman?s savings go missing

Posted on November 22, 2008
A caretaker was arrested on suspicion of stealing a great deal of savings from an elderly woman. In an awful case of elder abuse and neglect, the caretaker was arrested on suspicion of theft and obtaining property by deception. The woman was 79 years old and the caretaker was privately employed by the victim?s family...

Former caretaker gets 33 year sentence for raping elderly victim

Posted on November 21, 2008
A former caretaker committed serious elder abuse and received a criminal sentence for it. He was found guilty of raping and sodomizing a mentally disabled woman when she was 70 years old. He was sentenced to 400 months in prison. The elderly woman had suffered brain injuries in her twenties from a car accident that killed her husband...

Changing Cultural Vital for Nursing Homes

Posted on November 21, 2008
As a generation of elderly people resists the fate of nursing homes they?ve grown to dread, supporters of a cultural revolution say they are reforming an industry long tainted by images of neglected patients languished on soiled sheets. After nursing homes failed nationwide, some state?s are beginning a ?pay-for-performance? plan which sends higher Medicaid payments to homes that make changes from reducing bed sores to giving residents food on demand...

Nursing Home Caregiver Charged With Sexually Assaulting Residents

Posted on November 20, 2008
Kurt Johnson, a 49-year-old certified nursing assistant of Golden Living Center in Wisconsin Dells, has been charged with three counts of second degree sexual assault. According to the criminal complaint, Johnson?s co-workers witnessed the sexual elder abuse...

Levin & Perconti Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Family against Chicago?s International Village Nursing Home

Posted on November 20, 2008
Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby of Levin & Perconti filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Cook County against International Village nursing home in Chicago. The complaint was filed on behalf of James Yearword who experienced elderly neglect while a resident at the nursing home in May 2008...

Family Sues Nursing Home for Wrongful Death

Posted on November 19, 2008
The family of a man who was hit and killed by a freight train has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home he wandered away from. The lawsuit alleges that the nursing home negligently failed to supervise the patient who suffered from dementia...

Owner Pleas Guilty in Nursing Home Neglect Case

Posted on November 19, 2008
The corporate owner of a Forest Park, Illinois nursing home pleaded guilty to felony gross neglect that resulted in the death of a long-term patient. The woman died at the Pavilion of Forest Park, owned by Forest Park LLC, in 2002. In September 2005, a Cook County grand jury indicated the company, along with its former medical director and wound-care physician...

Levin & Perconti files nursing home abuse lawsuit against Illinois nursing home

Posted on November 18, 2008
An Illinois nursing home is facing a nursing home neglect lawsuit from a widow whose husband?s death was caused by a nursing home?s negligence. The law firm of Levin & Perconti filed a complaint on behalf of the victim?s family, stating that the victim died of renal failure and sepsis caused by dehydration...

State implements potential solutions to endemic nursing home abuse

Posted on November 18, 2008
Nursing home neglect has been endemic with understaffing and poor funding, but some states are developing their own solutions. One has begun a ?pay-for-performance? plan for funding its nursing homes. Medicaid payments correlate with the residents? quality of life...

80 Nursing Home Residents Might be Displaced

Posted on November 17, 2008
After the federal Department of Health and Human Services conducted many surveys it appears that one nursing home is closing, leaving 80 dependent patients with out a home. The findings included allegations of abuse and mismanagement that resulted in Medicare and Medicaid pulling funding for the nursing home...

Class-action Suit Filed Against Large Nursing Home Chain

Posted on November 17, 2008
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against one of the nation?s largest nursing home operators alleging the chain implemented illegal admissions policies. According to the lawsuit, the chain sought to admit more seriously ill patients while decreasing its staff...

Levin & Perconti Sues East Moline Nursing Home for Negligence

Posted on November 15, 2008
A nursing home is facing a lawsuit from a widow who is accusing the facility of negligence that led to her husband?s death in East Moline. Levin & Perconti filed the suit for the family of the victim against Parkview Terrace. The victim died of renal failure and sepsis caused by dehydration...

City Settles Suit with MS Patient

Posted on November 15, 2008
A city and a home health care agency wrote a check for $600,000 to a woman with multiple sclerosis after she nearly died in their care. The settlement is for a negligence lawsuit alleging the woman was neglected in her wheelchair and was left for so long that she developed life-threatening bedsores...

Nun Dies In Nursing Home and Family Looks for Answers

Posted on November 15, 2008
After a news investigation a family is now demanding an investigation to see whether or not the nun?s death was an accident. The 90-year-old nun was killed when a closet fell on her. The family was lead to believe that it was a freak accident however prior to the nun?s death; two other people were injured at the home by falling closets...

Settlement in Kankakee Nursing Home Sexual Assault Case Revealed

Posted on November 14, 2008
A nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuit against River Valley Supportive Living Residence in Kankakee, Illinois and its former employee was settled for $500,000, the facility?s insurance policy limit, by Steven M. Levin, of the Chicago law firm Levin & Perconti, and James Spiros of Spiros & Wall...

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