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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Last Entry: November 03, 2020 at 10:01:32

Nursing Home Sanctions are Not Tough Enough

Posted on November 28, 2009
Part 2 of the Minneapolis Star Tribune fall exposé discussed how the current sanctions nursing homes receive after falls are not enough to deter the nursing home negligence. One 85-year-old woman had osteoporosis so severe that she couldn?t get out of bed by herself...

State Takes Action on Local Nursing Home

Posted on November 28, 2009
A nursing home was fined and an employee fired after nursing home negligence. The nursing home admitted a quality of care violation and agreed to pay a $2,000 fine to settle a case related to an inspection of the facility and its records. The quality of care problem involved harm to a resident whose slow transit constipation was not well managed...

Patient Breaks Hip Despite Sounding Alarms

Posted on November 27, 2009
The Minneapolis Star Tribune published a three part story exposing the great amount of falls taking place at nursing homes. In one instance, despite a bed alarm and other safeguards, an 89 year old woman got up undetected, fell and broke her hip. The victim died five days later...

The November NCCNHR Gazette is Ready to Read

Posted on November 26, 2009
The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care has issued their November Gazette newsletter. This is a great resource for nursing home advocates and ombudsmen. It highlights recent legislation and current issues in nursing home health care. To read the November issue, please click the link...

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Nursing Home Tries to Dump Patient at Shelter

Posted on November 25, 2009
A daughter got a call out of the blue stating that her mother?s insurance ran out and the nursing home was releasing their mother. The woman had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed. However, the nursing home would not give her daughter a few days to find a nursing home for her...

Nursing Home Law Discussed at Hearing

Posted on November 24, 2009
Legal experts explained that the mental health code which does not allow felons to be mixed with mentally ill people and seniors applies to nursing homes; however it seems to not be enforced. Currently, there are two separate sets of state laws regarding nursing homes and the mentally ill...

Registered Sex Offender Groped Mentally Impaired Woman in Toluca Nursing Home

Posted on November 23, 2009
Contrary to a nursing home?s assurance that a registered sex offender presented no recent problems, a newly obtained government report and interviews show that the man allegedly groped a mentally impaired woman at the facility. According to Department of Public Health, the Asta Care Center of Toluca in central Illinois failed to fully investigate the incident, implement an appropriate care plan for the sexual predator, or properly monitor him to protect others...

New Website Creates Custom Reports on Long-Term Healthcare

Posted on November 23, 2009
LTCFocUS.org provides data on nursing home care in the United States. The website hopes to allow researchers to trace relationships between state policies, local market forces and the quality of long-termcare and enable policymakers to craft state and local guidelines that promote quality care for seniors...

Lack of Social Engagement Becomes a Risk Factor for Older Adults

Posted on November 22, 2009
A study by Rush University Medical Center found that seniors who neglect themselves tend to be individuals with limited social networks and little social engagement. The study is the largest epidemiological study to date examining a wide range of sociodemographic, health-related and psychosocial characteristics associated with elder self-neglect...

Nursing Home Leaves Resident Out in the Cold

Posted on November 21, 2009
A woman says her father was evicted and abandoned by his nursing home and left outdoors for hours. The man was sitting on his front porch when a neighbor noticed him. The neighbor says a nursing home van dropped him off at his ex-wife?s home, but nobody was present at the time...

Posted on September 30, 2009

Steven Levin Discusses Nursing Home Negligence

Posted on September 30, 2009
There was a short period when nursing home care was improving. However, Lawyers and Settlements.com reports that bad behavior is returning to the nursing home business. Steven Levin was quoted on the website stating that, ?Unfortunately, conditions for nursing residents are once again on the decline...

Central Baptist Village

Posted on September 29, 2009
Central Baptist Village in Norridge, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $20,000 after inspectors found evidence of nursing home abuse. The inspectors found nursing home abuse, lack of reporting by fellow employees and that the employee suspected of abuse was not properly terminated...

Nursing Homes are Allowed to Avoid Insurance

Posted on September 28, 2009
In 2007 a nursing home patient developed a pressure sore shortly after arriving at a nursing home. Inside Bay Area stated that once the pressure ulcer began to fester, he wasn?t moved, washed, monitored or treated with antiseptic. The bedsore erupted and surgeons had to remove his tailbone because the wound had festered without treatment...

Elder Justice Act of 2009

Posted on September 28, 2009
The US Congress has proposed the Elder Justice Act in the US Senate. The purpose of the Elder Justice Act is to ensure adequate public-private infrastructure to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect and exploitation...

Nursing Home Accusations Continue

Posted on September 28, 2009
At one nursing home the Attorney General?s Office is looking into accusations that a male employee had done inappropriate things with a female resident. The employee was a registered nurse and had been working at the hospital and filling in at the nursing home...

Jury Finds for Plaintiff in Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit

Posted on September 27, 2009
A Madison County jury took less than two hours to deliberate in a nursing home negligence suit against Rosewood Care Center of Alton. The only thing they had to consider what damages to award after the Madison County Judge struck the defendant?s pleadings on the negligence issue and directed the verdict on the liability issues for the plaintiff...

Malpractice at Nursing Home Results in $125,000 Settlement

Posted on September 27, 2009
A resident at the nursing home who was overdosed on Zyprexa for 2 days was awarded a $125 thousand nursing home abuse settlement. The nursing home negligence lawsuit centered on a miscommunication between a doctor who said he prescribed 2.5 mg of Zyprexa over the phone to a nurse...

CNA arrested in Nursing Home Attack

Posted on September 26, 2009
A certified nursing assistant at a nursing home is charged with choking and pushing one of the facility?s residents. The man was arrested for felony battery charges after police were called to the nursing home in reference to the elderly battery. He was found asleep in a recliner of the woman he physical abused...

Nursing Home Management Receives $8 Million in Fines

Posted on September 25, 2009
A state slammed Sunwest Management, several of their affiliates and former CEO with $8 million in fines, claiming that the ailing chain of assisted living centers misled investors, lied about the true condition of the company and used unlicensed salespeople to sell unregistered securities...

Jury Finds for Plaintiff in Illinois Nursing Home

Posted on September 25, 2009
It only took an Illinois jury less than two hours to deliberate in a nursing home negligence lawsuit against Rosewood Care Center of Alton, Illinois. The plaintiff, Clifford Emons, was represented by an Alton attorney. This is the second verdict this year against Rosewood Care Center...

The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care Issues Newsletter

Posted on September 25, 2009
The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care has issued their September Newsletter. The newsletter discussed the recent budget cuts to Illinois Ombudsmen Programs. On October 1, planned state budget cuts will significantly reduce funding to Illinois?s long-term care ombudsmen program...

Owner of Personal Care Home is Investigated

Posted on September 23, 2009
The owner of a personal care home is being investigated for possible elderly abuse violations. WTOK.com broke the story in which officials say the probe into the facility started from complaints from residents. Officials found residents in the middle of the street complaining about mistreatment at the house...

Congressman Recognizes World Alzheimer?s Day

Posted on September 22, 2009
Congressman Sestak recognized World Alzheimer?s Day by urging congress to pass legislation protecting Alzheimer patients from elder abuse. The Congressman wants legislation to protect Alzheimer patients from the growing epidemic of nursing home abuse, neglect and exploitation of vulnerable seniors like those suffering from Alzheimer?s...

Attorney Steven Levin to Speak at AAJ Seminar

Posted on September 21, 2009
Steven Levin of Levin & Perconti, will speak on Saturday, 17, 2009 at the American Association for Justice?s (AAJ) Litigating Nursing Home Cases Seminar. Attorney Levin will speak to other AAJ members about Moving from ?Medical Malpractice to Nursing Home- Differences to Watch For?...

Nursing Home Deficient in Several Categories

Posted on September 21, 2009
A State?s Department of Health and Human Services found a nursing home to be defiant in seven categories following an alleged sexual assault. A report showed that the home did not do enough to protect a 33-year-old disabled woman from sexual assault...

Woman Accused of Stealing at the Nursing Home

Posted on September 21, 2009
An employee at a nursing home was arrested and has been charged with stealing from the nursing home and several of its residents. According to the police department after the employee was arrested after the home?s chief long-term care officer reported the center had information showing an employee had been stealing...

Director of Group Home Arrested

Posted on September 20, 2009
Investigators are looking into charges of elderly abuse at a collection of group homes. They have arrested the director of one of the homes after discovering he was on probation for elder abuse and had been ordered to stay away from such facilities. He was convicted last year of causing great bodily harm to an elderly or dependent person and served three months in jail...

Caretaker Charged with Raping an Elderly Woman

Posted on September 19, 2009
A private caretaker who was charged with raping an elderly woman in an assisted living pleaded no contest to all charges. The 50-year-old man will be sentenced to between four and nine years in prison for the elderly abuse. He will also have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life...

Nursing Home Fined for having an Unauthorized Worker

Posted on September 18, 2009
Two nursing homes were hit with big fines for having an unauthorized employee. Federal prosecutors say that the nursing home both hired a nurse who had been previously banned from working in facilities that receive federal health care funds, like Medicare...

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