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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Wrongful Death Settlement in Nursing Home Lawsuit

Posted on September 22, 2010
A recent nursing home lawsuit has settled for $2.25 million reports Chanel 3000 News. The lawsuit was filed by the family of Cynthia Wims, following her tragic death several years ago. Cynthia was a resident at the Willows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in 2007...

Wanted Criminals Again Found in Chicago Nursing Home

Posted on September 21, 2010
The surprise Illinois nursing home quality check program known as ?Operation Guardian continued at a Chicago nursing home yesterday. As reported in the Chicago Tribune, the Illinois Attorney General led a team of investigators at the Central Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Monday...

More Reporting and Investigation Needed to Protect Vulnerable Seniors

Posted on September 20, 2010
The Chatham Daily News published a story last week about the problems of elder abuse. An educational workshop was recently in the area held which sparked discussion about the ways in which seniors are exploited, neglected, and abused. One speaker, legal scholar Robert Solomon, explained that many protections are in place to help vulnerable seniors but they are not well known...

Reports Indicate Elder Abuse On The Rise

Posted on September 19, 2010
Hampton Roads News recently discussed a new report which suggests that more elderly individuals are being abused than before. The new information adds more weight to recent calls for improvement in the way our elderly friends and family members are protected...

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Nursing Home Resident Sexually Assaulted

Posted on September 18, 2010
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a shocking story on Friday of a tragic example of nursing home assault. The victim was an elderly dementia patient at the Golden Living Center. Late last week the resident was resting on a couch in the common area of the nursing home...

Nursing Homes Negligence Leads to Deadly Resident Fall

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Madison-St. Clair Record recently reported on negligent conduct at an Illinois nursing home. James Mang filed a lawsuit last month against the Stearns Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following the tragic death of his father, Bernard. Bernard first became a resident at the facility in late May last year...

Chicago-Area Nursing Home Worker Steals From Deceased Resident

Posted on September 16, 2010
The Daily Herald reported this week on another tragic example of a nursing home worker violating their position of trust to take advantage of a resident and her grieving family. Thirty-two year old Vanessa May was a staff member at a Wheaton nursing home, Wynscape Nursing and Rehabilitation Center...

Nine Nurses Indicted For Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on September 15, 2010
WCAX News reported today on troubling news out of a Vermont nursing home, the Northwoods Rehabilitation Center. A mammoth 175-count indictment was recently issued naming nine nurses at the facility. The charges involve many instances of improperly caring for the residents in their charge as well as for falsifying records to cover up their shoddy care...

Galesburg Nursing Home Residents Affected By Mold

Posted on September 14, 2010
On several occasions we have reported on the development at the Illinois nursing home Galesburg Terrace, where black mold was discovered in several parts of the facility. The Illinois Department of Public Health has already notified the facility that they would face sanctions from federal government agencies for the problem...

Investigation Shows Hidden Abuse & Neglect At Nursing Homes

Posted on September 13, 2010
The Seattle Times conducted a troubling new investigation which explained the hidden problems of neglect and abuse that go unreported at many nursing homes. For example, 68 year old Audree Hopkins was a resident at a facility for only 6 months before a lit cigarette ignited her oxygen tank...

Nursing Home Administrator Filed Suits Against La Salle County

Posted on September 13, 2010
An Illinois nursing home is facing a new lawsuit this week as the former head of the La Salle County Nursing Home is challenged the events that led to her termination last year. According to My Web Times, Adrienne Erickson was fired as administrator of the nursing home in September of 2009 after only three and a half months in the post...

Illinois Nursing Home, Galesburg Terrace, Faces Fines For Negligence

Posted on September 12, 2010
Earlier this we posted a story on the troubling negligence at the Galesburg Terrace involving mold found in several patients? rooms. Now, the Galesburg Register-Mail is confirming that the Illinois nursing home faces mounting fines for its problems keeping the facility safe for residents...

Aide's Failure To Supervise Resident Leads To Deadly Fall

Posted on September 10, 2010
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune recently discussed the tragic death of a 91 year old nursing home resident. In April of this year, Jeanette Rittenhouse, a resident at the Samaritan Bethany Home on Eighth, asked for an aide to help her get to the bathroom...

Skilled Healthcare Agrees To Settle Nursing Home Lawsuit for $50 Million

Posted on September 09, 2010
One of the most high-profile (and high cost) nursing home lawsuits of all-time involved the class action lawsuit against Skilled Healthcare Group. The legal matter stemmed from the nursing home chain?s failure to properly staff its facilities as required by law...

Jury Awards Verdict For Resident In Nursing Home Lawsuit

Posted on September 08, 2010
Last week The Daily Republic explained a jury verdict in a nursing home lawsuit that found a local care facility guilty in causing the death of one of its residents, Helen L. Bumgardner. Two sons were awarded $500,000 by the jury following the careless and negligent behavior by an employee at Firesteel Healthcare Center...

Hospital Status Affect Medicare Nursing Home Coverage

Posted on September 07, 2010
Managing the financial details of entering and staying in a nursing home can be complicated and confusing for many potential residents. The consideration of whether Medicare will cover a nursing home stay depends on the official status that a patient receives at a hospital before being moved to the nursing facility, according to the Washington Post...

Vulnerability of Seniors Make Them Targets For Financial Predators

Posted on September 06, 2010
The Sandusky Register recently posted a story that helps better explain the problem of elder financial exploitation. We have often discussed the problems of senior financial abuse here?each day seems to present another story of a vulnerable senior citizen losing money in one of these scams...

Workers Ignore Nursing Home Alarm Leading To Death

Posted on September 05, 2010
A nursing home lawsuit was recently filed following the heartbreaking death of 87-year old Sylvia Ploszay in February, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Clement Manor is a nursing home that also has some assisted-living apartments within it. Sylvia was living in one of the apartments when the accident occurred...

Illinois Nursing Home?Galesburg Terrace?Cited for Mold

Posted on September 04, 2010
WQAD News reported yesterday on a citation given out by the Illinois Department of Health over concerns about resident safety at an Illinois nursing home. Earlier this month the Department conducted an investigation of Galesburg Terrace, a nursing home in Western Illinois...

Chicago Nursing Home, Grasmere Place, May Have Been Tipped Off About Inspection

Posted on September 03, 2010
Surprise inspections are one method state officials use to monitor the quality of care provided at nursing homes in Illinois. By showing up unannounced, these visits allow regulators to see exactly how these facilities are kept and how residents are treated on normal days...

Six People Indicted Following Elder Financial Abuse

Posted on September 02, 2010
A troubling scheme was recently uncovered involving the swindling of elderly nursing home residents and their families out of tens of thousands of dollars reports the Clarion Ledger. The plan involved an ex-nursing home social worker who told residents and their families at the Belhaven Senior Care Center that they needed to pay money to ensure that their Medicare benefits were maintained...

Family Files Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit Against ManorCare Health Services

Posted on September 02, 2010
Two of our attorneys at Levin & Perconti filed a lawsuit against ManorCare Health Services today following the wrongful death of Dolores ?Dee? Howorth. Dee died only a month after moving into the Hinsdale nursing home and being admitted to the facility?s dementia unit...

Three Nursing Home Employees Commit Elder Abuse

Posted on September 01, 2010
A troubling story was recently reported in the Berkshire Eagle discussing elder abuse at the Springside Nursing Home. Two nursing home employees were fired in the latest incident which occurred last week. A third employee was fired earlier this month following a different incident of resident abuse...

Bank Teller Charged With Stealing Money From Elderly Aunt

Posted on August 31, 2010
A troubling news story from the San Mateo Daily Journal discusses another example of financial elder abuse. A bank teller in Redwood City is charged with felony fiscal elder abuse after she stole more $40,000 from her own aunt. While working as a teller, Arcelia Barajas Aguilar had close access to the funds of the bank customers...

New ?Village? Community Helps Elderly Residents Stay in Their Homes

Posted on August 30, 2010
As frequently reported on this blog, elderly residents across the country now have more options when they reach a point in their lives when they need additional assistance. Our Chicago nursing home lawyers at Levin & Perconti continue to watch as nursing homes provide inadequate care to vulnerable residents in their facilities, so it is no surprise than many seniors wish to avoid these negligent homes for as long as possible...

Nursing Homes No Longer the Only Option For Seniors

Posted on August 29, 2010
Thirty years ago, when a senior needed extra medical care beyond that which he or she could do themselves, they virtually had no other choice but to move into a nursing home. Today things are much different. The Rockford Register Star recently discussed the change and the effect it has had on nursing home businesses in the Chicago area...

Study Reveals Palliative Care Helps Extend Patient Life

Posted on August 28, 2010
An article in The Gazette, a monthly publication of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, pointed to an interesting new study that suggests new methods that may help extend the life of cancer victims in nursing homes. The research out of the New England Journal of Medicine specifically found that ?palliative care? extended the length and quality of life of patients who had been diagnosed with lung cancer...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Fox River Pavilion

Posted on August 27, 2010
The Fox River Pavilion, a care facility in Aurora, recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and was fined $20,000. The violations resulted from failure to provide proper facilities for its residents and allowing another resident to physically attack several others in the facility in a particularly egregious form of nursing home negligence...

Nursing Assistant Charged With Stealing Pain Patches from Residents

Posted on August 26, 2010
The Foster?s Daily Democrat wrote this week about developments in a case involving nursing home theft. A former nursing assistant at the Riverside Rest Home was denied bail recently after being arresting for stealing medication from patients at the facility...

Illinois Nursing Home Under Investigation For Abuse

Posted on August 25, 2010
The News-Tribune posted a story last weekend about recent investigations by the Illinois Department of Public Health after a complaint was filed against an employee at the La Salle County nursing home. Details about the complaint are minimal, because the investigation is ongoing...

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