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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Long-Term Care Provisions Still Present in White House Reform Bill

Posted on February 26, 2010
The new healthcare reform proposal contained a number of provisions that hold a significant interest in those concerned with long-term care professionals. The first is the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act which would seek to assess nursing home quality and provide consumer information about facilities...

?Angel of Death? Defendant Receives Illinois Assistance in Nursing Home Case

Posted on February 26, 2010
The Northwest Herald recently reported that the State of Illinois will give Penny Whitlock $10,000 to pay for a defense expert witness. Whitlock is accused allowing another staff member to administer fatal doses of morphine to residents at Woodstock Residence, a Woodstock, IL nursing home that is now under new ownership...

Department of Health Issues Illinois Nursing Home Citations

Posted on February 24, 2010
The Illinois Department of Public Health has secured documents that indicate the owner of Camelot Terrace in Streator, Illinois might have tried to convince inspectors to change their reports to reflect positively on the condition of the nursing home...

Man Files Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit Against Glenbridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre

Posted on February 24, 2010
An Illinois man recently filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against Glenbridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Niles, IL. According to an article in the Niles Herald ?Spectator, the nursing home failed to treat the resident?s injured hand after he fell at the home...

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Pressure Sores are something to Watch in Nursing Homes

Posted on February 21, 2010
Nursing home residents are more likely to get pressure ulcers because they are immobile. A pressure ulcer is an injury to the skin that is the result of constant pressure due to impaired mobility. They are commonly referred to as bed sores and result in reduced blood flow and cause cell death, skin breakdown and the development of an open wound...

Illinois Nursing Home Task Force Releases Report

Posted on February 20, 2010
On February 19, the Illinois nursing home task force on safety released their final report with recommendations on how to improve safety and care for nursing home residents. Click on the link to view the report on Illinois nursing homes in its entirety...

Nursing Home Faces Abuse Allegations

Posted on February 17, 2010
A nursing home investigation is being launched against a home that is alleged to have committed elder neglect. The investigation began after a daughter found her 86-year-old father slumped in his wheelchair. The elderly man was then taken to the hospital where officials reported that he was wearing three soiled diapers and they believed he had not been washed for days...

Family Blames Rehabilitation Center for Man?s Sepsis

Posted on February 16, 2010
The family of a deceased man is blaming the doctor and medical staff at two local rehabilitation centers for the man?s wrongful death following a motorcycle accident. The family filed a nursing home lawsuit against the two rehabilitation centers claiming that their deceased family member arrived at the facility for post-trauma medical care after he sustained severe injuries in a motorcycle accident...

Studies Show that Too Many Elderly Patients with Dementia Get Feeding Tubes

Posted on February 13, 2010
Studies show that larger hospitals and for profit nursing homes are more likely to use feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia. This contradicts with the evidence that feeding tubes does not prolong life nor do they help with bed sores and other problems...

Illinois Nursing Home has Funds Cut Off

Posted on February 12, 2010
Illinois and federal authorities have stopped funding to the Fox River Pavilion nursing home in Aurora Illinois. This occurred after a series of violent incidents that included the wrongful death of one resident in a fight. State investigators believe that a lack of staffing contributed to the resident-on-resident attacks at the 98-resident nursing home in Aurora...

Chicago Nursing Home Attorney Steven Levin Commends Nursing Home Safety

Posted on February 09, 2010
Chicago nursing home attorney Steven Levin wrote to the Chicago Tribune to praise them for their commitment to uncovering nursing home abuse. Attorney Levin thought that ?Nursing homes? toll: 86 sex cases, 1 arrest? was a valuable tool for the people of Chicago...

Feds Terminate Funding for Somerset Place Nursing Home in Chicago

Posted on February 06, 2010
As the Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog reported, Somerset Place nursing home on the north side of Chicago has received a number of IDPH violations for repeated acts of violence and nursing home abuse and neglect that have compromised the safety of its residents...

Chicago?s Somerset Place is Fighting Shutdown

Posted on February 05, 2010
Chicago?s Somerset Place nursing home has filed a civil lawsuit to stop the government from administratively shutting it down. State and federal authorities were threatening to close Somerset Place until it remedies the serious safety breaches they found upon inspection...

Elderly Abuse and Neglect are Too Common in Today?s Society

Posted on February 05, 2010
An Illinois county has enacted a new team to review cases of alleged or suspected elderly abuse, neglect or exploitation. This team was organized by the county?s coroner in coordination with the Illinois Department of Aging. They are looking to have several people investigate cases of elderly abuse...

Golden Moments Senior Care Fined $50,000

Posted on February 04, 2010
State officials have fined the Golden Moments Senior Care Center in Jacksonville, Illinois $50,000. The nursing home was fined for poor care that has been connected with the wrongful death of a 74-year-old resident who choked on food. The elderly man was developmentally disabled and staffers knew that he had a risk of chocking on food...

Nursing Home Employee Faces Multiple Charges in Nursing Home Thefts

Posted on February 03, 2010
A nursing home employee was stealing from nursing home residents. The 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of fraudulent use of credit cards, petit theft, financial exploitation of the elderly, bank fraud, grand theft and fraudulent use of personal identification information...

1 in 5 Nursing Homes Get Low Stars

Posted on February 01, 2010
The USA Today has released a report stating that one in five of the country?s 15,700 nursing homes were found on the lower end of the five-star scale. It seems that almost all of the nursing home receiving one or two stars are owned by-for-profit corporations...

National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Release January Gazette

Posted on January 31, 2010
The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care has released their January Gazette. This newsletter includes important articles on nursing home abuse. The newsletter highlights the Chicago nursing home abuse that occurs when felons live in facilities...

Nursing Home Closes After Feces Failing on the Floor

Posted on January 31, 2010
A nursing home has been closed after inspectors found disgusting conditions. The health inspection showed that the facility had a number of problems with nursing home negligence. One of the residents? family members believed that her son?s bed looked pretty crumby...

Chicago Nursing Home Clears Hurdle with Feds

Posted on January 30, 2010
Chicago?s Somerset Place nursing home is at risk of losing its federal funding. They have cleared there first hurdle in ensuring that does not happen by dealing with the resident?s threat to safety. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that the agency has approved those plans...

FDA Says to Decrease Antipsychotic Drugs in Elderly Patients

Posted on January 29, 2010
A new study has found that newly admitted nursing home patients are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics if the nursing home has a high prescribing rate for antipsychotics. The FDA has recently advised that nursing homes should decrease their use of atypical antipsychotic in elderly dementia patients...

Federal Officials Finally Investigate Abuse at Chicago Nursing Home

Posted on January 28, 2010
Federal investigators are looking at a troubled home which appears to be guilty of Chicago nursing home abuse. Somerset Place is a Chicago nursing home in the area of Uptown that specializes in mentally ill adults and has a history of citations for patient safety violations...

Some Nursing Homes have Bad Track Records

Posted on January 28, 2010
Among the 15,547 nursing homes in a set of U.S. News ranking, there are 131 that have been tagged as ?Special-Focus Facilities.? They are red flagged as SFFs. These nursing homes have long histories of inconsistent or subpar health inspections. A nursing home is labeled as an SFF if first there are consecutive inspections with deficiencies; second that that deficiency affected many residents; finally that that problem remains unresolved on follow-up inspections...

Chicago Tribune Report on Sexual Abuse in Chicago Nursing Homes

Posted on January 27, 2010
As Chicago nursing home attorneys, we have represented hundreds of victims of nursing home abuse and neglect and witnessed many instances of sexual abuse in Illinois nursing homes. Today, the Chicago Tribune reports on their latest investigation into poor care in Chicago nursing home, focusing on sexual assault and abuse in nursing homes throughout the city...

Nursing Home Focus of a State Investigation

Posted on January 27, 2010
Two nursing home abuse lawsuits were filed alleging physical and sexual abuse of residents with dementia. The nursing home was the focus of state investigations and widespread publicity about elderly abuse in early 2008. Six aides were charged with abusing the seven residents...

Care Centers Nursing Home Avoids Closure

Posted on January 26, 2010
A Merrillville nursing home with a history of safety problems has avoided a likely closing by finding a buyer. The state health department had issued an emergency order requiring the Northlake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to hire a state-approved nursing home administrator in order to monitor patient care...

More Illinois Nursing Homes are Swept for Residents with Warrants

Posted on January 26, 2010
Authorities swept two Chicago-area nursing homes for people with outstanding arrest warrants. The sweeps identified 20 residents with warrants ranging from domestic battery to assault. The raids were initiated by Attorney General Lisa Madigan who stated that Illinois is ?working to keep Illinois nursing homes safe and not safe houses for fugitives...

Sunwest will Sell 134 Nursing Homes to Blackstone Group

Posted on January 25, 2010
Sunwest Management has signed a deal to sell 134 of its nursing homes to a group led by private equity giant Blackstone. The deal appears to be controversial considering that Blackstone is offering a lowball price. Even federal criminal investigators are looking into the case...

Nursing Home Transparency Act Should be Added to Health Care Reform

Posted on January 25, 2010
The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care is urging house and senate leaders to ensure that nursing home transparency and improvement and criminal background checks are in both health care bills. Currently, the Elder Justice is in the Senate bill only...

Woman Charged with Identity Theft at a Nursing Home

Posted on January 23, 2010
A nursing-home worker is accused of stealing the identity of one of her nursing home patients. Employees at the nursing home contacted the Sheriff?s department when they received credit card statements for a resident with charges that had not been authorized...

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