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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Proposed Legislation Would Help Suffering Seniors

Posted on June 28, 2010
The federal government is considering passage of a piece of legislation aimed at helping fix a problem that adds to the suffering of many senior citizens. HR4796, the Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act, would correct a problem with the Medicare Secondary Payer system that currently causes many seniors to die while waiting to receive funds to which they are entitled...

Group Forms to Stop Elder Abuse

Posted on June 28, 2010
The Toledo Blade reports on the creation of a citizen run group known as the Coalition of Organizations Protecting Elders (COPE), a welcome development in the quest to provide proper care for the elderly. The group was founded by Sandra Hamilton after she witnessed repeated examples of elder abuse and recognized the need for increased vigilance to stem the problem and hold the abusers accountable...

Study Finds Nearly Half of Alzheimer's Patients Abused

Posted on June 27, 2010
A recent study from the University of California, Irvine, examined the treatment of the elderly who have been diagnosed with Alzheimers or similar disorders. Shockingly, the study found that nearly half of the elderly individuals had suffered from mistreatment by their caregivers...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Arden Courts of Geneva

Posted on June 26, 2010
Arden Courts of Geneva, a care facility in Springfield, Illinois catering primarily to the physically and mentally handicapped, recently received a Type ?A? Violation from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $10,000. The violation resulted from an emergency situation at the facility which investigators deemed to involve nursing home abuse and neglect...

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Negligent Illinois Nursing Homes Fail to Check for Dangerous Residents

Posted on June 25, 2010
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan?s ?Operation Compliance? netted another wanted criminal hiding in an Illinois nursing home this week. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Police officers raided the Virgil Calvert Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Thursday where they found wanted drug fugitive Rothford Davis in hiding...

Nursing Home Negligence Leads to Resident Deaths in Fire

Posted on June 24, 2010
Charges have officially been filed this week against several employees of the Casa de Vallejo facility stemming from a 2008 fire that killed several residents of the nursing home according to KTVU News. The fire started when an unsupervised resident began smoking near an oxygen tank, and somehow lost consciousness, possibly due to an unrelated medical event...

Illinois Nursing Home Violation: Adloff Place

Posted on June 23, 2010
Adloff Place, a care facility in Springfield, Illinois catering primarily to the physically and mentally handicapped, recently received a Type ?A? Violation from the Illinois Department of Public Health and fined $15,000. Inspectors of the facility noted that two of the twelve residents were engaged in sexual activity, and that nursing home staff had no policy in place to ensure that both individuals consented to the activity...

Nursing Home Negligence Leads to Poisonous Death

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Orlando Sentinel reports of a tragic incident at the Homewood Residence that underscores the danger of inadequate care provided to elderly residents at many medical facilities. In this case, a 93-year old resident suffering from dementia died at the assisted living facility from severe esophagus burns after ingesting poisonous sodium hydroxide solution from a nearby dishwasher...

Systematic Negligence Sparks Elder Abuse Lawsuit at Nursing Home

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Globe Gazette recently reported on a new lawsuit alleging nursing home negligence by the Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea. The suit charges nursing home staff with failure to properly supervise four teenage certified nursing assistants alleged to have committed a wide-range of abuses on their elderly residents...

Caregiver at Nursing Home Charged with Murdering Resident with Morphine

Posted on June 20, 2010
A caregiver at a North Carolina nursing home was charged with murdering Rachel Holliday, an 84-year-old Alzheimer?s nursing home resident, with morphine. The nursing home caregiver, Angela Almore, also faces charges of felony abuse, which are related to the hospitalization of six other Alzheimer?s patients whom authorities suspect she also gave morphine...

Inadequate Care in One of Nation?s Largest Nursing Home Chains

Posted on June 18, 2010
A major class-action lawsuit alleging nursing home abuse and neglect is drawing to a close this week in California. The suit challenges the care provided by one of the nation?s largest nursing home chains, Skilled HealthCare Group, Inc., a group that owns and operates 22 nursing homes in several states...

State Moves to Revoke Chicago-Area Nursing Home License for Patient Neglect

Posted on June 17, 2010
According to the Chicago Tribune, Illinois health authorities have initiated the process to revoke the nursing home license of Evergreen Health Care Center in Evergreen Park, Illinois. This move comes after Evergreen received numerous citations for serious resident neglect...

White House Recognizes World Elder Abuse Day

Posted on June 16, 2010
On June 15, 2010, we honored the 5th Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. In 2006, The International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse allied with groups around the world to advance the public?s knowledge of the perils that face our older population...

Journal Report Sees Poor Survival Rates Amongst Medicare Patients

Posted on June 15, 2010
A report published in the June 9 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that survival rates among Medicare beneficiaries who have been transferred to long-term acute-care hospitals is quite poor. The report used long-term-care trends, which did include all Medicare hospitalizations involving admission to an intensive-care unit of an acute-care, non federal hospital in the US...

Financial Exploitation Explored on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

Posted on June 15, 2010
An article on the Chicago Tribune website reported that a former nursing assistant at The Moorings, a nursing home in Arlington Heights, was sentenced to five years in prison for theft after she stole $6,070 from an elderly resident?s bank account. The former employee obtained the victim?s banking information while she worked at the nursing home in 2008...

The Many Faces of Elder Abuse

Posted on June 12, 2010
People frequently hear or read the term elder abuse, but few understand what constitutes abuse of older citizens. The term describes any type of wrong committed against an older person including emotional, physical or sexual violence or abuse. According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, it is difficult to determine the number of elderly people who fall victim to abuse because incidents often go unreported because they frequently occur in a domestic setting...

Case Law Update: Nursing Home Care Act Contracts

Posted on June 11, 2010
Carlton at the Lake, Inc. v. Barber, Nos. 1-09-0039 (5-20-10) found that long-term care facility filed suit for balance due for services to husband during his two-year residence at facility, and claim against wife under Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act, and quantum meruit claim against both...

Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit Filed Against Caseyville, Illinois Facility

Posted on June 08, 2010
The Madison/St. Clair Record is reporting that nursing home lawyers have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the family member of a man who died while under the home?s care. According to the article, the man suffered malnutrition, dehydration, a urinary tract infection and pressure sores in the month that he resided there...

Chicago Nursing Home Lawyers Settle Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit

Posted on June 07, 2010
The Chicago nursing home lawyers at Levin & Perconti have helped victims of nursing home abuse in their settlement against the Mercy Health Care Rehabilitation Center. The Chicago injury lawyers helped to secure a $690,000 settlement for the victims in March of 2010...

Lawsuit Claims Illinois Nursing Home Negligent

Posted on June 05, 2010
The Madison/St. Clair Record is reporting that the administrator of a victim?s estate has filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against an Illinois facility in Belleville called the Lincoln Home. The nursing home lawsuit alleges that the woman suffered a broken thigh bone while a resident at the nursing home...

Illinois Nursing Homes are Facing Reformation

Posted on June 03, 2010
The Chicago Law Bulletin is reporting that Illinois Governor Quinn may soon sign legislation that will greatly reform nursing homes. The bill has already passed both chambers of the legislature was the result of many task forces that were created in response to violence and sexual abuse in the understaffed nursing homes...

Study Shows New Definitions for Malnutrition

Posted on June 01, 2010
A panel of nutrition experts has released new definitions for malnutrition that will be universally applicable. McKnights Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living is reporting that these new definitions will help clinicians and healthcare workers identify and treat malnutrition...

Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect: The Problem with Pressure Sores

Posted on June 01, 2010
Pressure-related injuries are a common problem in elderly residents living in nursing homes, due to the fact that many nursing home residents are immobile or have limited mobility. Oftentimes, these residents cannot turn themselves on a regular basis or reposition themselves easily...

Nursing Home Horror Story Shocks the Conscience

Posted on May 30, 2010
CBS news is reporting the horrific tale of a nursing home abuse story caught on camera. This story involved a nurse, who was supposed to be carrying for a patient, dump the elderly woman out of her wheelchair and onto the floor. This has led the state?s attorney general to file criminal charges against the nurse...

Antipsychotic Medications are Overused in Nursing Homes

Posted on May 28, 2010
Science Daily is reporting that a study shows that newly admitted elderly patients to nursing homes have a higher rate of being prescribed antipsychotic drugs than in previous years. This study found that in 2007, almost one-third of U.S. nursing home residents received antipsychotic drugs...

Illinois Nursing Home Sweep Finds Violations

Posted on May 26, 2010
The State Journal-Register is reporting that the Illinois Attorney General?s office has conducted a sweep at the Golden Moments Senior Care Center in Jacksonville, Illinois. This was the 11th sweep of an Illinois nursing home in the past several months...

Chicago Nursing Home Lawyers Levin & Perconti Settle Nursing Home Case

Posted on May 23, 2010
The Chicago nursing home attorneys of Levin & Perconti have helped the victims of nursing home negligence settle a lawsuit against Manorcare Health Services, Inc. in Libertyville, Illinois. HRC Manor Care at Libertyville settled the nursing home lawsuit for $650,000 with the nursing home victim...

Sex Offenders Still Rome the Halls of a Nursing Homes

Posted on May 21, 2010
One nursing home is still allowing sex offenders but not informing the families of the other elderly residents who still occupy the home. There are currently 18 registered sex offenders that live at the nursing home. Their sex offenses range from child molestation to rape and the state government is paying a good deal for the program...

Nursing Home Employee Steals Drugs from Patient

Posted on May 20, 2010
The Northwest Herald is reporting that a former nursing assistant has been jailed after they were poking holes in an Alzheimer?s patient?s medication patch. The nursing assistant than licked the painkiller off his finger at the Illinois nursing home The 25 year-old nursing assistant was charged with the crime of aggravated battery to an elderly person...

Financial Exploitation of the Elderly an Ever-growing Problem

Posted on May 17, 2010
Financial exploitation of the elderly has become a large problem within the elderly community. The State Journal-Register is reporting that a Hillsboro, Illinois man was arrested for his involvement in the financial exploitation of an elderly person...

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