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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Advocates Call Attention to Poor Care At Chicago-Area Nursing Home

Posted on August 24, 2010
The Illinois Nursing Home Care Act is the guiding law that sets standards of care for residents in nursing homes in the state. The law is intended to ensure that the vulnerable patients in these facilities receive a certain quality of care at all times...

Nursing Home Patients Signed Up for Insurance Without Their Knowledge

Posted on August 23, 2010
Nursing home abuse and exploitation takes many forms. The vulnerability of many of our elderly residents at these facilities make them prime targets for anyone who wishes to force themselves upon them because of their often mentally or physically weakness...

Financial Expert Explains Nursing Home Finance Planning

Posted on August 22, 2010
The Record Searchlight posted an insightful article this week discussing some financial ins and outs regarding nursing home care. The discussion begins by explaining that many Americans often overlook the financial component of skilled nursing home stays...

Medication Error At Nursing Home Causes Brain Damage

Posted on August 21, 2010
A jury this week awarded $3.1 million dollars plus still-to-be-determined punitive damages following a nursing home lawsuit, according to the Orange County Register. Barbara Lefforge was literally at the St. Edna Subacute & Rehabilitation Center for half a day?only 5 ½ hours?before they made a costly medication error that nearly ended Barbara?s life...

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State Pays $16 Million in Nursing Home Lawsuit

Posted on August 20, 2010
The Washington Post published a story yesterday on the latest development in a large class-action nursing home lawsuit out of Maryland. On Wednesday the state began paying $16 million to various nursing homes and their residents as part of a settlement from a nursing home lawsuit filed in 2005...

Receptionist Steals Funds From Nursing Home Residents

Posted on August 19, 2010
Yesterday we posted an example of elder financial abuse involving the complex swindling a Chicago area senior citizen. In that case, the retiree was cajoled out of $500,000 after investing money with a con-man whom he assumed was using the funds to develop a construction business...

Chicago Area Man Victim of Elder Financial Exploitation

Posted on August 18, 2010
The Chicago Tribune recently published a troubling story of financial abuse affecting an elderly man from nearby Des Plaines. Will Harling is seventy one years old, a fact that he believes made him a more attractive target for his abuser, Taha Mahmood...

Illinois Nursing Home Administrator Resigns

Posted on August 17, 2010
The La Salle County Nursing Home administrator, Amjad Hussain, resigned his position last week after only six months on the job, reports the News-Tribune. According to the report, Mr. Hussain had been working positive changes at the facility since he started the position in February...

Nursing Home Business Sacrifices Care For Profits

Posted on August 16, 2010
The Florida Times-Union profiled a nursing home entrepreneur who has continuously skirted the law, tolerating nursing home abuse in an effort to maximize personal profits. Robert Hagan owns sixteen nursing homes in several states, a business which has provided him with an upper class living?he owns three million-dollar-plus homes...

Jury In Nursing Home Case Awards Verdict to Resident?s Family

Posted on August 15, 2010
John J. Donahue was 93 years old when he died in 2005 following a horrific accident at the Embassy House nursing home, according to the Boston Herald. The facility is owned by Kindred Healthcare, a for-profit company which owns more than 40 nursing homes in and around Boston...

State Calls For Fines in Angel of Death Case

Posted on August 14, 2010
We have been tracking the case out of the Britthaven of Chapel Hill, a nursing home embroiled in a tragic controversy of overmedication and death. As previously reported, a registered nurse at the facility was charged with second-degree murder and six counts of patient abuse...

Will Country Nursing Home Cited for Negligence

Posted on August 13, 2010
Embassy Health Care, a nursing home outside of Chicago in Will County, was recently challenged by nursing home regulators for providing inadequate care to the residents at the facility. ABC 7 News recently discussed the problems the facility faces after federal inspectors uncovered troubling incidents of poor nursing home care...

Latest Investigation At Illinois Nursing Home

Posted on August 12, 2010
WIFR News recently discussed the latest nursing home inspections as part of Operation Guardian ? an Illinois program aimed at improving care at nursing home facilities across the state. Illinois officials conducted the latest surprise investigation at Park Strathmoor in Rockford...

Chicago Nursing Home Faces Forced Closure

Posted on August 11, 2010
A negligent Chicago nursing home will be closed by the state, reports CBS 2 Chicago. Columbus Manor Residential Care Home faces over $100,000 in fines and closure after Illinois nursing home inspectors uncovered repeated examples of inappropriate care at the facility...

Drug CEOs Prioritize Cash Over Nursing Home Resident Care

Posted on August 10, 2010
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article that shed light on a widespread problem that plagues the care given to nursing home residents everywhere: corrupt deals between nursing home adminstrators and drug companies. The article focuses on Joel Gemunder, the former CEO of Omnicare, the largest distributor of pharmaceuticals to nursing homes...

Nursing Home Fails to Prevent Sexual Abuse

Posted on August 09, 2010
A nursing home has been cited by state officials for failing to prevent and properly report the tragic sexual abuse of one resident at the facility by another resident. The Lexington Herald-Leader is reporting on the incident. An 88 year old Alzheimer's resident at the facility, Mae Campbell, was in her room when a male resident entered and refused to allow her to leave...

Nursing Home Negligence Leads to Wheelchair Accident

Posted on August 08, 2010
A basic part of almost all nursing home care is the guarantee that staff members will ensure that the most vulnerable residents be given near constant supervision to prevent harm. Many patients in these facilities decided to begin living there precisely because they had conditions which required close monitoring to ensure their safety...

Nursing Home Negligence Causes Deadly Fall

Posted on August 07, 2010
The Los Angeles Times reported on a tragic act of inadequate nursing home care that has led to the death of a resident at the Pilgrim Haven Health Facility. The doctor for the 85-year old victim was very clear when he explained to nursing home officials that the patient had a heart condition and diabetes which required his walker be nearby at all times...

Effect of New Illinois Nursing Home Laws

Posted on August 06, 2010
In several posts the past two weeks we reported on the new legislation recently passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn to improve safety and care at nursing homes in Illinois. The new Illinois nursing home law mandated new staffing levels at many facilities and increased background checking of incoming residents...

Nursing Home Residents Brunt of Cruel Joke

Posted on August 05, 2010
A new Associated Press report describes a horrific example elder abuse involving the dehumanization of elderly residents at nursing home. Authorities recently arrested six employees at the Valley View Skilled Nursing Facility in Ukiah, California for a grotesque ?joke? involving the inhumane abuse of the residents in their care...

Illinois Legislator Discusses New Nursing Home Law

Posted on August 04, 2010
Illinois State Senator Gary Forby recently wrote an article discussing new Illinois nursing home law. As published in the Carmi Times, the new rules and regulations passed by the Illinois General Assembly were designed to curb the widespread negligence at many nursing homes in Illinois...

State Court Imposes Corporate Liability on Nursing Homes

Posted on August 03, 2010
Law.com is reporting on an important decision that will affect nursing home lawsuits in Pennsylvania. In Scampone v. Grane HealthCare Co., the Supreme Court of the state found that nursing homes were similar to hospitals in the care they provide, and therefore they should be treated by the law in a similar manner...

Nursing Home Investigated for Negligent Care

Posted on August 02, 2010
Wisconsin?s largest nursing home remains under investigation this week after continued reports of substandard nursing home care. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel has been following the developments at Mount Carmel Health & Rehabilitation Center...

Health Care Aides Steal From Elderly Resident

Posted on August 01, 2010
Yet another example of elder financial abuse is being reported in Poughkeepsie Journal. Two female aides were working at the Lake View Arms apartment complex, assisting the elderly residents who lived in the units with basic health and household upkeep tasks...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Edwardsville Terrace

Posted on July 31, 2010
Edwardsville Terrace, a care facility in Southern Illinois, recently received several Type ?A? Violations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $20,000. The violations resulted from a mismanaged healthcare emergency situation at the facility which involved nursing home abuse and neglect...

Nursing Home Lawsuit Filed Against Negligent Facility

Posted on July 30, 2010
Frances Graham was 81 years old and suffering from Alzheimer?s disease when she died at the Andrew Elijah Guest Home ? a health facility that was supposed to care for elderly residents in need of close supervision and care. However, Ms. Graham was unable to die with dignity, as her passing was caused by severe bed sores that were 4 inches deep in some areas, rotting down to the tendon...

Illinois Nursing Home Reform Bill Signed Into Law

Posted on July 30, 2010
The AP reports that yesterday, Governor Pat Quinn signed an Illinois nursing home reform bill into law. The new legislation will serve to protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect while improving the quality of care in Illinois nursing homes...

The Many Forms of Elder Financial Abuse

Posted on July 29, 2010
The Quad City Times recently highlighted the widespread problem of elder financial abuse and the various forms in which it occurs. Elderly residents remain vulnerable to being taken advantage of in many circumstances. For example, Brian Lovett was startled to discover that his 94-year old mother had written various checks to public safety organization, a rodeo, and police organization hundreds of miles from her Iowa home...

Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Filed After Falling Death

Posted on July 28, 2010
Eighty-nine year old Agnes Hauser died at the Davenport Good Samaritan Society late last summer following a fall in her room at the nursing home. The Quad-City Times reported on the new suit which alleges nursing home negligence against the facility for its failure to properly asses Ms...

Nursing Homes Chemically Restraining their Residents

Posted on July 27, 2010
target="_blank" Channel 10 News in San Diego reported on troubling claims of nursing home abuse made by the daughter of a nursing home resident who died at the facility last year. The abuse was an example of ?chemical restraint,? where residents are essentially fed drugs in order to ensure that they are essentially immobile, so that nursing home staff members can do even less work to care for them...

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