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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Illinois Nursing Home Lawsuit Filed Against Rosewood Care Center

Posted on March 19, 2011
Many residents enter nursing homes specifically needing 24-hour, around the clock care. For these vulnerable seniors, the only way that they can ensure that professional help is available at a moment?s notice is to move into the facility and live surrounded by those paid to provide that intense care...

Negligent Illinois Nursing Homes See Little Federal Aid

Posted on March 18, 2011
We recently posted a story explaining the latest information issued by the federal government regarding nursing homes that have been labeled ?Special Focus Facilities? (SFF). The SFF initiative released a list that identified the improvement?or lack thereof?of the facilities participating in this program...

Chicago Nursing Home Negligence At Wincrest Nursing Center May Lead to Closure

Posted on March 17, 2011
The Chicago Tribune reported yesterday on federal action that indicates big trouble for a local nursing home. The Wincrest Nursing Center on the city?s north side was found delinquent on many fronts following alarming federal inspections. Investigators uncovered stories of bloody fights between residents and rampant drug use and abuse...

Aide Accused of Nursing Home Abuse with Deprivation of Bed Pad

Posted on March 16, 2011
The Chillicothe Gazette reported last week on disturbing new allegations at a nearby nursing home about poor treatment and elder abuse. An aide at the facility is under investigation following an incident that occurred earlier this month. According to a report acquiring by the local police, the nursing home victim had trouble getting out of bed to reach the bathroom...

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Horrific Elder Abuse Case Highlights Need For Change

Posted on March 15, 2011
The Forbes Blog included a post last week that discussed one truly heartbreaking story of elder abuse. The example was shared as part of the Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing that was held in Congress last week to discuss issues related to elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation...

Corporations Seek Tort Reform To Take Away Rights of Illinois Nursing Home Victims

Posted on March 14, 2011
An article in the Huffington Post last week emphasized a principle that we have discussed often on this blog: the effect tort reform will have on limiting valid Illinois nursing home lawsuits. The story attempted to provide context to the often misleading claims made by proponents of reform...

Illinois Lawsuit Affecting Seniors Ends with $68.5 Million Settlement

Posted on March 13, 2011
The Los Angeles Times reported this weekend an agreement reached with the large pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca following a multistate drug lawsuit. The Illinois drug lawsuit stemmed from apparent ?off label? use of the drug Seroquel. The drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults...

The Disturbing Truth About Illinois Elder Abuse

Posted on March 12, 2011
Too little awareness is usually raised about the plight faced by senior seniors living in poor conditions or facing daily abuse. As was vividly displayed in the Congressional hearings on elder abuse last week, the vast majority of senior abuse is never reported...

Some Illinois Nursing Homes on Federal Watch List Not Improving

Posted on March 11, 2011
Many Illinois nursing homes have been deemed in need of quality improvement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These poor nursing homes are part of a program aimed at improving the care provided to vulnerable residents?a project known as the Special Focus Facility Initiative...

October Declared Nursing Home Residents Rights Month

Posted on March 10, 2011
The Consumer Voice, one of the nation?s leading advocacy groups for nursing home residents and their families, recently announced that October will be declared ?Resident?s Rights Month.? The new initiative, expanded from what was previously a week-long effort, will include a month of raising awareness of the needs and rights of nursing home residents across the country...

Most Nursing Homes Employ At Least One Criminal

Posted on March 09, 2011
Last week the New York Times published a summary of a frightening new study that suggests that nursing homes may not be as safe as many suspect. The research centered on better understanding bad nursing home employees and was led by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services...

Nursing Home Lawsuit Ends in $9.5 Million Wrongful Death Verdict

Posted on March 08, 2011
The Atlanta Journal Constitution passed along news this weekend of the culmination of a nursing home lawsuit. The wrongful death case stemmed from the passing of a 51-year old woman who died following complications stemming from her untreated pressure sores...

Alden Village North May Be Closed By State Officials

Posted on March 08, 2011
Blog readers are well aware of the continued string of problems facing Alden Village North, a oft negligent Illinois nursing home. Over the past several years, revelations have uncovered shocking misconduct and poor treatment of the mentally disabled children residing at the Chicago nursing home...

Three Employees Charged with Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on March 07, 2011
Many vulnerable nursing home residents often suffer injury and death because of negligent, careless actions by those charged with their safety. When that happens, it may be appropriate that the victims and their families to file a nursing home lawsuit to seek recourse for their losses...

DePuy Hip Recall Lawsuits Continue To Mount

Posted on March 06, 2011
As we?ve previously reported, the problem with the DePuy hip implants was uncovered last year, prompting the official recall in August of 2010. Many victims of the recall are senior citizens and nursing home residents. Complaints about the devices go back to 2005...

Congress Consider Issues Affecting Illinois Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on March 05, 2011
This week the Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing to discuss issues related to elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation. The committee is considering ways in which the federal government can become involved in ending these unacceptable problems facing far too many vulnerable seniors...

Examining the Cost of the DePuy Hip Recall

Posted on March 04, 2011
Last month Lawyers & Settlements took a look at the effect that the DePuy hip recall might have on the parent company responsible for defect in the product, Johnson & Johnson. Blog readers are aware that nearly 100,000 of the implants were recalled by the company in August after evidence mounted quickly showing the extreme danger the product presented to patients...

Effect of the Recession on Illinois Nursing Home Residents

Posted on March 03, 2011
Most consumers of long-term care services, like nursing homes, are aware of the role that public funding has on many of these facilities. In particular, state resources are generally provided in various ways to these facilities, with the effects of that aid, regulation, and support felt each day by many Illinois nursing home residents...

Illinois Senior Citizens Should Remain On Lookout For Scams

Posted on March 02, 2011
Last week we reported on a pair of con artists that were targeting senior citizens. In those cases, the victims received knocks on their door following heavy rains. They were then confronted about the dangerous conditions of their roof. The con artists would ask to be let inside to examine the condition and would steal valuables while distracting the victim during the fake home inspection...

Illinois Nursing Home May Be Unprepared to Handled Young Mentally Ill Residents

Posted on March 01, 2011
Each month the Consumer Voice and National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center produce a monthly newsletter dealing with many nursing home issues. The publication is useful for all those interesting in keeping up with the important information about Illinois nursing home law, policy, and care...

Senior Citizens Remain Targets of Con Artists

Posted on February 28, 2011
Much of this blog?s focus is on the care provided to Illinois nursing home residents and senior citizens. Far too often care providers make basic mistakes and give minimal effort to ensuring the safety and proper treatment of these vulnerable community members...

Chicago Nursing Home Attorney to Speak at Upcoming Seminar

Posted on February 27, 2011
The Chicago Bar Association will soon host a seminar entitled ?Tort law: The New Legal World We Live In.? One speaker at the event will discuss an issue of importance to all those interested in Chicago nursing home lawsuits. At the seminar, nursing home lawyer Jordan Powell will give a presentation called ?Developments in Nursing Home Cases...

Illinois Nursing Home Lawsuits Have No Effect on Medical "Crisis"

Posted on February 26, 2011
The spreading of misinformation about tort reform continues unabated in public forums across the country. Things are no different in this part of the nation as some special interests continue to argue that certain types of legal cases, including Illinois nursing home lawsuits are causing a healthcare ?crisis...

Jury Trial Remain Vital for Illinois Nursing Home Trials

Posted on February 25, 2011
The St. Louis Post published a story this morning that emphasizes the huge costs that would be incurred by average citizens if ?tort reform? proposals become law. The debate typically involves some big interests making claims about the ?problems? with nursing home lawsuits therefore necessitating these changes...

Tai Chi May Help Prevent Illinois Nursing Home Falls

Posted on February 24, 2011
Falling is one of the biggest risks facing seniors in many Illinois nursing homes. The vulnerability of elder bodies means that even a single fall can have deadly consequences. It is important for all care givers to take steps to minimize the prevalence of nursing home falls...

Pilot Program May Affect Care of Illinois Nursing Home Residents

Posted on February 23, 2011
target="_blank" The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care recently announced the beginning of new pilot projects seeking to improve nursing home care at many facilities across the country. The new programs will be tested for the next three years in a variety of areas with a specific focus on improving the care received by those in non-nursing home settings...

Illinois Nursing Home Lawsuits May be Hurt By Advancing Federal Legislation

Posted on February 22, 2011
We have recently paid close attention to the status of a tort reform bill introduced last month in Congress known as H.R. 5. The legislation represents a dangerous combination of legal changes that would severely curtail the rights of innocent victims of negligence...

Illinois Nursing Home Nearly Lost Medicare Participation For Poor Resident Care

Posted on February 21, 2011
An Illinois nursing home in Alton?the Eunice C. Smith Nursing Home?was on the cusp of losing all federal payments following repeated examples of bad nursing home care. The Telegraph reported on the news last week. According to the story the facility was first at risk for losing its ability to participate in the federal Medicare program after it failed a site visit last September...

Illinois Nursing Home Lawsuits: First Hand Look At Tort Reform

Posted on February 20, 2011
The Center for a Just Society recently posted a detailed essay about tort reform written by an experienced attorney who has worked on all sides of the legal system. The author explains that his opinion on the merit (or lacking thereof) of tort reform was rooted in his experiences as both defense and plaintiff?s attorney in nursing home lawsuits...

Nursing Home Resident Murdered By Fellow Dementia Patient

Posted on February 19, 2011
The American Bar Association Journal reported this week on a tragic nursing home death. Police are continuing to investigate the murder of a 70-year old resident at the Cambria Care Center after an attack by a fellow resident. According to reports, the nursing home victim was found in a pool of blood on the floor of the facility...

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