Elder Law

Bloomington and Normal Nursing Homes Battle COVID-19

Posted on November 03, 2020
McLean County Nursing Homes Face New Wave of COVID Infections Community spread of the coronavirus is the biggest threat to long-term care facilities. And now, news of a third wave of COVID-19 infections is again concerning communities with elder care facilities such as nursing homes, group homes, and skilled nursing communities...

Be Confident Referring Clients To This Chicago Law Firm

Posted on October 30, 2020
?Levin & Perconti Does the Best Job with Nursing Home Cases Here in Chicago.? – McCready Law Firm Many cases we handle at Levin & Perconti are referred to us by other attorneys who may not have the same resources, experience, and tools their clients and cases require...

Nursing Home Faces COVID-19 Criminal Charges

Posted on October 22, 2020
Massachusetts Nursing Home Leaders Are First to Face Criminal Charges Related to Coronavirus Deaths Holyoke Soldiers? Home in Massachusetts is home to 76 patients who died due to coronavirus outbreak that began in March and led to 160 residents and staff members found to be positive for COVID-19...

How Illinois Nursing Homes Can Prevent Flu Outbreaks

Posted on October 19, 2020
COVID-19 Care Failures Should Prepare Illinois Nursing Homes for Influenza Outbreaks In the last flu season, an estimated 35.5 million people were sick with the illness, 16.5 million people required a health care provider for their treatment, and there were 490,600 influenza hospitalizations and 34,200 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)...

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October Is Long-Term Care Residents? Rights Month

Posted on October 15, 2020
October Reminds Us That ?Connection Matters? for Illinois Nursing Homes Residents Every day, Illinois families bring their loved ones to nursing homes all around the state, some feeling certain and others uncertain that they will receive the high-quality care and comfort needed and their rights protected...

Inspections of Illinois? Worst Nursing Homes Show Abuse & Neglect

Posted on September 30, 2020
Nursing Homes Cited for Mistreatment Are Flagged with Special Icon on Government Website In 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service?s (CMS) Five-Star Quality Rating System via The Nursing Home Compare website added a new tool to help better identify elder-care facilities with extreme and troublesome care failures...

Partners At Illinois Law Firm Recognized As Leaders

Posted on September 23, 2020
Levin & Perconti Partners Chosen as Influential Leaders in Legal Profession Levin & Perconti partners Margaret Battersby Black and Mike Bonamarte have been separately acknowledged for their work as leading attorneys in Illinois. Battersby Black has been nominated for her rising influence as a woman in the legal field and named to Crains Notable Women […]

Questions About Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements

Posted on September 21, 2020
FAQ: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements When an individual or a family member has to make the difficult decision about residing in a nursing home, often in emergencies, they should not be forced to sign away their legal rights through mandatory arbitration agreements...

Southern Illinois Nursing Home Reports COVID-19 Outbreak

Posted on September 09, 2020
Nursing Home Outbreak at Stearns Facility Points to Sick Care Workers An Illinois nursing home in Madison County is under investigation related to a COVID-19 outbreak that has killed 12 people and infected more than 100. Stearns Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located at 2900 Stearns Avenue in Granite City...

How To Choose A Parent?s Nursing Home In 2020

Posted on September 02, 2020
Transitioning A Loved One Into a Nursing Home During the Coronavirus Pandemic Nursing homes and assisted living centers should offer a safe place for your loved one, whether he or she is your parent, a family member, or a friend who needs guided rehabilitation or to make a senior care facility their future residency...

Understaffed Nursing Homes Put Residents at Greater Risk of Fatal Falls

Posted on August 31, 2020
Like many U.S. nursing homes, elder care facilities in Illinois seem continuously challenged by an inadequate amount of care workers. Even though the state requires 2.5 hours of direct care for residents each day, about a quarter of the residents in Chicago-area homes are living in understaffed conditions putting them at risk for abuse and neglect...

Keeping Nursing Residents Hydrated and Well Cared For May Help Prevent Dangerous Episodes of Delirium

Posted on August 28, 2020
An altered mental status is a difficult condition for nursing home residents to manage on their own, especially when symptoms can present slowly and brushed off for age-related memory loss, stress, medication side-effects, lack of sleep, or other conditions like dementia...

Brief Shows COVID-19 Challenges Magnify Chronic Care Issues Inside U.S. Nursing Homes

Posted on August 25, 2020
U.S. nursing home residents, totaling 1.2 million seniors and nonelderly people with disabilities living in over 15,000 facilities, are at increased risk of coronavirus infection and complications. The combined challenges of the facility setting and shared living environment, residents with underlying health conditions, the close contact that many care workers have with residents, and failures in facilities who […]

For-Profit Nursing Homes May Abuse COVID Relief Funds

Posted on August 13, 2020
Some U.S. Nursing Home Providers Will Misuse COVID Relief Funds A revealing story published in the Washington Post shows that many for-profit nursing homes across the U.S., received hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID relief by The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)...

Illinois Nursing Home Exec Pinged For Swiping Federal Funds

Posted on August 12, 2020
Illinois Nursing Home Owner May Have Diverted Over $1 Million Intended For Nursing Homes The Cahill Group of Chicago, an operating company working in the financial industry returned to the nursing home business in 2014 when owner and founder Mark Yampol acquired St...

Common Nursing Home Drugs May Be Unsafe for Elderly Residents

Posted on March 31, 2011
One indicator of a negligent nursing home is the extent to which their employees rely on chemical restraints to manage the residents in their care. As we have often shared, these ?restraints? involve the overmedication of residents so that they remain in a dulled state?easier to manage but often incapable of living their lives in meaningful ways...

More Illinois Nursing Home Deaths Identified at Alden Village North

Posted on March 30, 2011
The saga involving negligent Illinois nursing home Alden Village North appeared to be drawing to an end as the state moved to close the facility earlier this year. Blog readers will be well aware of the continued, drawn-out, tragic examples of abuse and neglect at the home...

Conservative Politician Comes Out Against Unnecessary, Dangerous Tort Reform Law

Posted on March 28, 2011
As we have often mentioned on this blog, tort reform legislation (both at the state and federal levels) is an unnecessary intrusion into the Constitutional powers and rights given to the American people. The efforts to limit the ability of injured victims to seek fairness in the legal system is often nothing more than a power grab by big interests who seek to insulate themselves from the costs of injuring others in their quest for profits...

Officials Knew of Illinois Nursing Home Abuse At Graywood Homes

Posted on March 28, 2011
The Chicago Tribune reported this weekend on troubling news about the lack of action taken against Illinois nursing home officials. New information has surfaced which indicates that those regulators charged with preventing Illinois nursing home abuse knew of trouble at a series of facilities run by the Graywood Foundation but failed to act quickly...

Important Illinois Nursing Home Lawsuit Analysis: Questions of Law vs. Questions of Fact

Posted on March 27, 2011
Understanding the importance of the Illinois nursing home case Vincent v. Alden-Park Strathmoor, Inc first requires knowing the type of issue involved in the case. All lawsuits involve two types of questions that a judge or jury is must answer. The first kind is known as a ?question of fact? ?what actually happened in a certain case? The second is known as a ?question of law? ?what rules apply to whatever happened in that case? For example, a nursing home abuse case may have a question of fact like ?Did the staff member actually treat the resident?s pressure sore wound in the proper manner?? Medical records, witness testimony, and other evidence would be examined to help answer that question...

Vincent v. Alden-Park Strathmoor, Inc.: Important Illinois Nursing Home Lawsuit

Posted on March 26, 2011
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported earlier this year on a pending court decision that is of particular interest to all those concerned with the proper treatment of nursing home residents. The Illinois Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in the important Illinois nursing home lawsuit, Thomas Vincent v...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Lexington of Orland Park

Posted on March 26, 2011
The latest report of Illinois nursing homes that have violated basic resident health, care, and safety laws was recently released by state officials. Lexington of Orland Park, a nursing home in the Chicago area recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $30,000...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Moore House

Posted on March 25, 2011
We contintue our look at the latest report of Illinois nursing homes that have violated basic resident health, care, and safety laws was recently released by state officials. Moore House, a nursing home in Chicago recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $20,000...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Evergreen Healthcare Center

Posted on March 25, 2011
The latest report of Illinois nursing homes that have violated basic resident health, care, and safety laws was recently released by state officials. Evergreen Healthcare Center, a nursing home in the Chicago are recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $10,000...

Chicago Nursing Home Lawyer Shares List of Common Malpractice Events

Posted on March 24, 2011
Our Chicago nursing home lawyers know that most people in our area have heard the words ?medical malpractice? or "nursing home abuse." But unless you have ever fallen victim yourself than there is a good chance you are not familiar with the various forms in which the mistakes occur...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Alden Gardens of Waterford

Posted on March 23, 2011
The latest report of Illinois nursing homes that have violated basic resident health, care, and safety laws was recently released by state officials. Alden Gardens of Waterford, a nursing home in Aurora and owned by the Chicago nursing home chain, recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $10,000...

It Will Soon Be Easier to Learn About Negligent Illinois Nursing Homes

Posted on March 23, 2011
The Consumer Voice recently explained some changes that will soon begin regarding nursing home comparisons found on the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid website. The changes are currently still fluid, with comments from involved parties still capable of altering the final product...

Horrific Case of Chicago Elder Abuse Reported

Posted on March 22, 2011
Chicago Breaking News reported yesterday on a tragic example of bizarre elder abuse that occurred in a Near North Side Chicago apartment. The strange occurrence took place at an apparent dinner between apartment neighbors. A 74-year old elderly neighbor had been in a Chicago car accident?breaking both of her feet and requiring use of a wheelchair...

Chicago Nursing Home Loses Federal Funding?Wincrest Nursing Home

Posted on March 21, 2011
The Chicago Tribune provided an update this weekend on the likely closure of the a north side nursing home, the Wincrest Nursing Center. On Sunday federal authorities officially stopped funding the negligent Chicago nursing home. The home has an 80-resident capacity that is typically filled with adult suffering from mental illness...

Nursing Home Negligence Caused By Overmedication of Residents

Posted on March 20, 2011
Earlier this week we reported on a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a doctor and hospital accused of implementing unnecessary heart stents. Unfortunately, the problem of unnecessary medical care is not isolated to one location or one type of procedure...

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