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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Health Care Reform Bill Contains Nursing Home Transparency and Elder Justice Act

Posted on December 26, 2009
The new Senate Health Care bill includes the nursing home transparency and improvement act and the elder justice act. This will ensure that criminal background checks are given to all long-term care workers. The House bill does not contain the Elder Justice Act...

Teen Employee Denies Existence of Sexual Abuse at Nursing Home

Posted on December 26, 2009
A 19-year-old nursing home aide pled not guilty to charges that she was one of two employees who sexually abused elderly residents. According to the charges she inserted her finger into the rectum of an elderly resident at the nursing home. She said she was trying to trigger a bowel movement but acknowledged that this was not party of her training...

Nursing Home Sweeps Find Outstanding Warrants

Posted on December 24, 2009
Officials swept two Chicago-area nursing homes for felons with outstanding arrest warrants and identified 18 residents wanted on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to burglary to assault. The raids involved 20 federal marshals and Cook County sheriff?s police were initiated by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan...

New Legislation Makes it Difficult to obtain Nursing Home Negligence Evidence

Posted on December 23, 2009
Attorneys for the family of woman who froze to death on the roof of a hospital are asking a judge to sanction the state Health Department for refusing to turn over notes written by inspectors who found hospital errors after her death. The notes the family seeks were taken days after her wrongful death and resulted in a critical 22-page inspection report made public in January...

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Elgin Man Admits Raping Elderly Woman

Posted on December 22, 2009
An Elgin, Illinois man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting an elderly woman at the nursing home where they were both patients. The 22 year old man pled guilty to aggravated sexual assault in exchange for the sentence. The aggressor had snuck into the room of a 68-year-old woman at Maplewood Care in Elgin and raped her...

Fox River Pavilion Nursing Home Death is Suspicious

Posted on December 21, 2009
Aurora police ordered toxicology tests this weekend to investigate the suspicious death of a 57-year-old nursing home resident who died last week at Fox River Pavilion. According to the Chicago Tribune, authorities performed an autopsy on Saturday, but the results did not show any "signs or injuries that would explain his death...

Nursing Home Sued Over Blood Thinner

Posted on December 19, 2009
The attorney for a former Illinois nursing home claims the patient suffered from massive rectal bleeding after nurses gave her a blood thinner. The nursing home administered 4 milligrams of Coumadin to the victim despite the fact that her physician had ordered her prescription be held because of an elevated PT/INR lab result...

Illinois Nursing Home Inspections Stun State Officials

Posted on December 18, 2009
Top state officials who recently visited Illinois nursing homes said that they were stunned and disappointed by the conditions at some facilities. They described grim institutions crowded with large numbers of mentally ill residents who wandered aimlessly without proper treatment...

$7.75 Million Awarded in Elderly Abuse Case

Posted on December 17, 2009
A jury awarded $7.75 million to the family of a 71-year-old stroke victim who filed an elder abuse lawsuit against his nursing home. The trial featured a secret videotape of the woman being abused. The nursing home abuse lasted 22 days. The jury deliberated for two days before announcing the $7...

Nursing Home Accountability Obviously Lacking

Posted on December 16, 2009
One of the problems with the Illinois government is that taxpayers don?t see a good investment for their dollar. Last week it was revealed that Illinois nursing home administrators are rarely disciplined when nursing home negligence occurs. Between 2005 and 2009, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation received 407 complaints from the state?s health department about nursing homes across the state...

Resident?s Family Files Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit

Posted on December 15, 2009
The family of a former nursing home resident is suing a nursing home. According to court documents, the 74 year old resident died after living at Alden Meadow Park for approximately one year. The man had complained of severe abdominal pain and was taken to the hospital where he died from a severely impacted bowel...

New Charges in Columbus Park Nursing Center Resident Death

Posted on December 15, 2009
First degree murder charges have been brought upon a Chicago nursing home resident who killed a fellow resident in August at the Columbus Park Nursing Center in the city's West Side. According to a report on Chicago Breaking News, the 62-year-old resident, described as a psychotic felon with a history of aggressive behavior, began punching the victim after he found the victim eating his lunch...

Illinois Weighing Tougher Sanctions for Nursing Home Administrators

Posted on December 15, 2009
State authorities stated that they are reviewing laws and policies to strengthen the disciplinary sanctions taken against nursing home administrators in cases of wrongdoing and patient harm. Although there are serious allegations of violence against nursing home residents, administrators are rarely punished by the Department of Financial & Professional Regulation, which licenses the administrators and other professional staff...

Resident Falls and Breaks Hip, Despite Alarms Sounding

Posted on December 15, 2009
An elderly woman couldn?t walk safely by herself. She had advanced osteoporosis, dementia and a history of falling. To deal with these ailments, the staff at the nursing home put up many safeguards, including a bed alarm, a motion sensor, a sound monitor, a perimeter mattress and a bathroom light...

Long-Term Care Stirs Health Care Debate

Posted on December 14, 2009
Embedded in the new health legislation being debated on the Senate floor is a major new federal insurance program for long-term care intended to help people who have cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. Advocates for elderly Americans and people with disabilities see the program as a long-overdue effort to address needs that will explode as baby boomers age...

Government Accountability Office Releases Special Focus List

Posted on December 14, 2009
If the GAO succeeds the number of nursing facilities on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Special Focus Facility (SFF) list from 135 to 580. The GAO enhanced the list by altering the methodology used by the CMS to make SFF designations...

Illinois Disciplines Few Nursing Home Administrators

Posted on December 13, 2009
In five years, an Illinois agency that disciplines nursing home administrators has received more than 400 complaints of elderly negligence from the state agency that investigates nursing home care. However, only three complaints have led to discipline...

Nursing Home Residents Allowed to go to Home for the Day

Posted on December 12, 2009
The Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc is releasing news the news that residents of skilled nursing facilities can leave their facility to attend a family holiday celebration without losing their Medicare coverage. The policy recognizes that although most beneficiaries are unable to leave their facility an outside pass or short leave is not by itself evidence that the individual no longer needs to be in a skilled nursing facility for the receipt of required skill care...

Illinois Leads Nation with Most Unsafe Black Nursing Homes

Posted on December 10, 2009
The Reporter analyzed data from the U.S. Government Accountability Office which listed 580 of the nation?s most unsafe facilities among roughly 16,000 nursing homes in the U.S. 53 of these homes had predominately black residents. Of these 53 facilities, 12 of them were from Illinois which makes us the leading state in the nation...

Illinois Nursing Home Blamed for Resident?s Sepsis

Posted on December 09, 2009
A woman wrongfully died after employees at an Illinois nursing home allowed her pressure sores to deteriorate, which caused sepsis to flow throughout her blood. Her relatives have now filed a nursing home lawsuit in St. Clair County Court against Caseyville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Caseyville Property...

Temp Firms have become a Magnet for Unfit Nurses

Posted on December 09, 2009
Firms that supply temporary nurses to the nation?s hospitals are taking perilous shortcuts in their screening and supervision, which is putting seriously ill patients in the hands of incompetent caregivers. There is a chronic nursing shortage which makes nursing homes look towards temp agencies for help...

Nurses? Aides Sued for Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on December 08, 2009
A surveillance camera captured images of nursing home abuse in what is being considered the second-worst elder care facility in the nation. This nursing home was owned by Extendicare, a nation-wide nursing home corporation. Last year a hidden camera at the nursing home caught images of nursing home abuse inflicted on an 84-year-old resident by nursing aides...

Be Careful When Choosing a Nursing Home

Posted on December 06, 2009
Choosing a nursing home should be a carefully thought out process, yet it is usually done in a rush after a loved one is about to be discharged from a hospital. However, medical reporter Lee Bowman has some advice on how to choose a nursing home. First, start with the U...

Nursing Home Aide will Serve 20 Months in Hidden Camera Abuse Case

Posted on December 05, 2009
A former nursing home aide has been sentenced to 20 months in jail after hidden cameras caught her abusing a paralyzed stroke victim at a nursing home facility earlier this year. The 30-year-old woman took the sentence as part of a plea agreement. Police arrested her in July on charges of felony abuse...

Waukegan Nursing Home Resident Missing

Posted on December 04, 2009
Waukegan police are asking for the public?s help in finding a nursing home resident who has been missing for a week. The 47-year-old has been missing since November 25 when he was given a 10-day pass to leave the Glen Lakes Terrace Nursing Home in Waukegan, Illinois...

New Nursing Home Concern is Unregistered Sex Offenders

Posted on December 03, 2009
In the last year, Chicagoans have learned that senior citizens are living in nursing homes that are understaffed and occupied by sex offenders. A new Chicago Tribune report shows that there are many unregistered sex offenders living at the Illinois nursing homes as well...

Death in Nursing Home Shows how Violence Can Spill into the Neighborhoods

Posted on December 03, 2009
Crimes are being committed by residents of Chicago nursing homes throughout the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. Illinois is a unique state because it allows nursing homes to house younger adults with mental illness patients including several thousand felons...

Illinois Nursing Home Ratings Website Offers Free Membership

Posted on December 02, 2009
The holiday season is a time for giving, and, Gunther's Grades would like to offer three months of free membership to all new members during the month of December. For information on how to take advantage of this holiday special, go to www.gunthersgrades...

Illinois Jury Declares Nursing Home Neglect

Posted on December 01, 2009
A jury found that Rosewood Care Center of Joliet, Illinois was responsible for the death of an elderly resident. The victim died after suffering a huge bedsore that ate through her skin to the bone. The jury awarded $51,000 to the victim of the nursing home neglect...

Better Training will Help Reduce Falls

Posted on November 29, 2009
Part Three of the Minneapolis-Star Tribune?s fall expose discussed how more staffing will be able to help reduce falls. In today?s nursing homes inadequate staffing is a common complaint from employees, industry watchers and families with loved ones in nursing homes...

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