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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Nursing Home Lawsuit Filed over Sexual Assault

Posted on April 05, 2010
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the family of a disabled woman has filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against the Fox River Pavilion nursing home in Aurora, Illinois. The lawsuit also includes a nursing home resident who is alleged to have sexually assaulted the disabled victim...

Illinois Appellate Court Rules on Appellate Case

Posted on April 03, 2010
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin has reported that a very influential case has been decided by the Illinois Appellate court. The court ruled that the trial court had erroneously dismissed the plaintiff?s claims against a nursing director. The case involved a woman who had become a resident of Pinnacle Health Care LLC in Waukegan due to multiple sclerosis...

Illinois Advocates for Nursing Home Industry Debate Changes

Posted on April 01, 2010
Currently nursing home operators and advocates for seniors are debating the amount of change needed to fix the much troubled Illinois nursing home industry. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the nursing home industry is balking at the Nursing Home Safety Task Force and their recommendations for legislative action...

Illinois Nursing Home Cited by the Department of Public Health

Posted on March 30, 2010
Manor Court of Clinton, a Clinton, Illinois nursing home, has not only been citied for deficiencies but its administrator has been replaced. This comes after many complaints and an inspection by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). Pantaograph...

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Evergreen Health Care Center

Posted on March 29, 2010
Evergreen Health Care Center in Evergreen Park, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $25,000 after inspectors found that the nursing home was negligent when it failed to notify the patient?s physicians after significant changes in the resident?s health...

Elder Justice Act will Help Illinois Nursing Homes

Posted on March 28, 2010
On Tuesday President Obama singed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These pills contain the Nursing Home transparency and Improvement Act and the Elder Justice Act. They also will create a national program of criminal background checks on long-term care workers...

Case Law Update: Nursing Home Care Act

Posted on March 26, 2010
Childs v. Pinnacle Health Care, No. 2-09-0648 (3-17-10) reversed a decision that found that a nursing home lawsuit filed for wrongful death and negligence against nursing home corporation and its director of nursing; trial court dismissed with prejudice counts against director of nursing, holding that these allegations were premised on Nursing Home Care Act, to which only licensees and owners of nursing homes can be held liable...

Picking a Nursing Home Can be Quite Stressful

Posted on March 25, 2010
A New York Times article has laid out many times for helping those dealing with the stressful task of choosing a nursing home. Chief executive of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging stated that you can find a nursing home with a safe, engaging and pleasant environment if you ?know what to look for and how to search...

Obama Signs Elder Justice Bill into Law

Posted on March 23, 2010
As part of the new health care system plan, Congress and President Obama have approved the Elder Justice Act and the Patient Safety Abuse Prevention Act. This will include Adult Protective Services (APS) funding that will provide $400 million in first-time dedicated funding for adult protection services...

Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit filed against South Elgin Home

Posted on March 22, 2010
A nursing home has been served with a nursing home neglect and abuse case on behalf of the family of a 54-year-old man diagnosed with spina bifida. The man required constant care and was assured by Tower Hill Healthcare Center that they ?would provide a safe and comfortable house for him...

Wheaton Care Center

Posted on March 22, 2010
Wheaton Care Center in Wheaton, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $12,000 after inspectors found that the nursing home was negligent when it did not ensure that the nursing home environment was free from accidental hazards...

Punitive Damages Awarded In Nursing Home Case

Posted on March 19, 2010
A Philadelphia jury issued a $5 million punitive damage claim against Jeanes Hospital and a Wyncote nursing home in the death of a man who suffered from fatal bedsores. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, this is only the second time a jury awarded punitive damages in a nursing home case in Philadelphia...

Case Law Update: Mandatory Arbitration in Nursing Homes

Posted on March 19, 2010
Fosler v. Midwest Care Center, Il, Inc., No. 2-08-1005 (5-8-09) found that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts the provisions of the Nursing Home Care Act that purport to nullify resident's waiver of right to commence court action and to jury trial. A nursing home resident, whose daughter signed agreement for her nursing home admission, is barred from pursuing suit for injuries sustained there...

Nursing Home Finds Breakdown in Care

Posted on March 19, 2010
Recently the Northlake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has found themselves in some trouble. Residents and their facility members have filed complaints depicting horrors that sound unbelievable in today?s modern age. These include patients who have visable bedsores that have progressed to the need for amputation...

Class-Action Lawsuit Orders Illinois to Help Residents out of Mental Institutions

Posted on March 18, 2010
A settlement in a class-action lawsuit has demanded that the state of Illinois must help thousands of residents move out of large mental institutions. The state must also provide those residents with support services. The Chicago Sun Times has reported that the state will have five years to help those residents make a transition to small homes and apartments...

Kickbacks made with Chicago Nursing Home Operators

Posted on March 16, 2010
Illinois state authorities are declining to pursue civil allegations made by whistle-blowers that said one of the nation?s largest pharmacy companies, Ominicare Inc., paid a multimillion-dollar kickback to Chicago nursing home operators. There has been a civil lawsuit filed by two health care industry insiders...

Nursing Home Beds May Be Unsafe

Posted on March 14, 2010
The New York Times recently published an expose that questions whether beds in nursing homes are safe for the patients within them. They discussed the death of one patient who found his neck entrapped between the mattress and the rail. The patient wrongfully died from asphyxiation...

Nursing Home Residents Are Entitled to Enjoy Their Life

Posted on March 13, 2010
In a recent New York Times article, Dr. Marc Agronin draws our attention to society?s misguided perception of aging. He comments that we too often ?imagine the pains of late-life ailments but not the joys of new pursuits; we recoil at the losses and loneliness and fail to embrace the wisdom and meaning that only age can bring...

Both Chicago and Illinois Move to Improve Nursing Home Safety

Posted on March 12, 2010
Illinois and Chicago officials are looking towards new legislative proposals to improve nursing home safety. 48th Ward Alderman Mary Ann Smith has introduced ordinance amendments which will hopefully strengthen the current city of Chicago inspections of nursing facilities...

Hope for New Alzheimer Drug Lost - New Study for another Treatment Provides Promise

Posted on March 12, 2010
According to an article in the New York Times, hopes were recently crushed crushed when an Alzheimer drug failed in its first late-stage clinical trial. The companies working on the drug, a start-up in San Francisco called Medivation and the world?s largest drug company, Pfizer, said that the drug, called Dimebon, ?had shown virtually no effect after six months in treating the cognitive decline or behavioral problems associated with Alzheimer?s when compared with a placebo...

Chicago Nursing Home to Close by Friday

Posted on March 11, 2010
According to the Chicago Tribune, Somerset Place in Chicago will officially close on Friday, and the state must transfer Somerset's remaining residents. The closure comes after Medicaid funding was cut off and the Illinois Department of Public Health revoked Somerset's funding after inspections revealed rampant nursing home abuse and neglect...

Press Conference to Announce Nursing Home Reform Legislation in Illinois

Posted on March 09, 2010
Today, lawmakers, the AARP, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Illinois Citizens for Better Care, the Illinois Association of Long Term Care Ombudsmen and other senior and nursing home advocacy groups will hold a press conference to announce nursing home reform legislation that will be introduced in the Illinois Senate this week...

New Nursing Home Legislation Looks to Reform Illinois

Posted on March 09, 2010
A group of elder advocate groups brought together by the AARP joined in Springfield to announce nursing home legislation that will reform the way nursing homes operate in Illinois. Senate Bill 685 was introduced by Heather Steans and Jacqueline Collins, both Democrats...

Nursing Homes Must Carry Insurance

Posted on March 07, 2010
The Clarion Ledger has recently posted an article discussing the needs of nursing homes to carry insurance. The article points out that many nursing homes do not carry enough liability insurance to cover damages caps if a nursing home lawsuit is filed...

U.S. Supreme Courts Rules Nursing Home Resident has a Private Right of Action Under FNHRA

Posted on March 05, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied certioria in a case where the Third Circuit Court of Appeals said that a nursing home resident and Medicaid recipient may sue their facility under 42 U.S.C. � 1983 for violations of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Amendments (FNHRA)...

Chicago Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Steve Levin Quoted about ?Angel of Death? Case

Posted on March 04, 2010
The Chicago nursing home abuse lawyers of Levin & Perconti filed an amended complaint in the McHenry County Circuit Court yesterday in a lawsuit against Woodstock Residence. Our attorneys represent the family of Virginia Cole in a civil lawsuit against the nursing home and two former employees...

Staffing Ratios at Nursing Homes Must be Mandated

Posted on March 04, 2010
It has been well documented that nursing home staffing ratios and quality of care go hand in hand. According to a recent article from My Elder Advocate, sufficient nursing home staff are needed to ensure that residents have proper nutrition, disease management and that they are turned and repositioned frequently to prevent pressure sores...

Wandering and Elopement Causes Great Worries in Nursing Homes

Posted on March 01, 2010
Wandering and elopement has become a great problem in nursing homes throughout the country. When patients are not properly monitored they can leave the securities of their facilities and find themselves without guidance in the outside community. The Chicago nursing home lawyers at Levin & Perconti have filed many lawsuits on behalf of the victims of wandering and elopement and have won favorable verdicts...

Nursing Home Arbitration Clauses Disadvantage Residents and Contribute to Substandard Care

Posted on March 01, 2010
According to the Arizona Daily Star, for-profit nursing homes have less staffing, cut costs and are typically lower quality than their non-profit counterparts. One study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that for-profit nursing homes are 46...

Illinois Continues Nursing Home Safety Push

Posted on February 28, 2010
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan stated that both her office and the local police are intensifying their efforts to protect nursing home residents by making unannounced visits and conducting broad safety checks at troubled Illinois nursing homes...

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