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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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

Tips to Protect Loved Ones from Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on June 25, 2009
Elder abuse has become an all too real reality in nursing homes across the country. However, there are some very practical things you can do to make sure your family is safe while in a nursing home. The best way to combat nursing home abuse is to visit often...

Southview Manor in Chicago, Illinois

Posted on June 24, 2009
Southview Manor in Chicago, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $15,000 after inspectors found that the nursing home did not have a psychiatric rehabilitation program. Also, inspectors found that employees allowed residents to consume drugs or alcohol while taking psych medications...

Man Charged with Sexually Assaulting Nursing Home Patient

Posted on June 24, 2009
An 84-year-old nursing home visitor was arrested for first degree sexual assault after he inappropriately touched an 87-year-old patient. Police say that a nurse saw the man pushing the victim down the hall into her room, then noticed he never came out...

Nursing Home Draws a Maximum Fine

Posted on June 24, 2009
A nursing home has been hit with a severe citation and the maximum fine of $100,000 in connection with a patient who wrongfully died from a preventable fall. The patient was recovering from hip surgery when she wrongfully died. He had been admitted for physical therapy and he fell twice within 24 hours...

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Nursing Home Assistant Arrested in Sexual Assault

Posted on June 23, 2009
Police arrested a 24-year-old certified nursing assistant at a nursing home in connection with the sexual assaults of three elderly female patients over a one-month period. The man was arrested on suspicion of five counts of third-degree sexual assault...

South Shore Nursing & Rehab Center in Chicago, Illinois

Posted on June 23, 2009
South Shore Nursing & Rehab Center in Chicago, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $25,000 after inspectors believed that nursing home negligence had taken place. The nursing home neither failed to comprehensively asses a resident with a complaint of pain nor notified the physician in a timely manner of the medical change...

Phoenix Court in South Holland, Illinois

Posted on June 22, 2009
Phoenix Court in South Holland, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $20,000 after the nursing home failed allowed a client to sustain a decubitus ulcer. The nursing home was also cited for failing to develop written plans for residents as part of a total habilitation plan...

Nursing Home Employee Charged with Rape

Posted on June 22, 2009
The police have charged an attendant who works at the nursing center with two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a patient who lives at the nursing home. The man will be held without a bail until a bail hearing in 10 days after the nursing home abuse...

June 23 is Eldercare Workforce Alliance National Call-In Day

Posted on June 22, 2009
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance has declared June 23 national call-in day. In order to participate in this day call your representative and senators and remind them that a strong eldercare workforce is essential to real health reform. Call in order to combat the many older adults that do not receive the care they deserve because of an inadequately trained healthcare workforce...

Levin & Perconti Files Nursing Home Neglect Suit on Behalf of Son Against Arbor of Itasca

Posted on June 20, 2009
Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby of Levin & Perconti field a nursing home negligence lawsuit in Dupage County on behalf of Robert Gryncewicz for the personal injuries his mother sustained while under the care of the Arbor of Itasca nursing home in Itasca, Illinois...

Woman awarded $1.3 Million for Elder Abuse at Nursing Home

Posted on June 19, 2009
A jury has determined that a woman suffered elderly abuse and neglect in 2006 at an elder-care facility and awarded her more than $1.3 million for past medical bills and damages. In October 2006, the woman was placed at the six-bed facility by her husband...

Caregiver Accused of Disabling Man

Posted on June 19, 2009
A former employee of a nursing home has been arrested on charges that she abused a disabled resident of the facility. The woman was arrested after receiving information from the state?s department of children and families. Witnesses observed the employee grab the victim by his feet and pulled him off the facility?s van, causing him to strike his head on the floor of the van, the running board and the pavement...

Nurse?s Aide is Convicted of Elder Abuse

Posted on June 17, 2009
Jurors returned a nursing home abuse guilty verdict in the trial of a former nurse assistant at a nursing home who was accused of striking a disabled resident in the groin and forcing water down his nose into his lungs through his oxygen tubing. The man was convicted of second-degree elder abuse in a single day trial...

Somerset Place in Chicago, Illinois

Posted on June 17, 2009
Somerset Place in Chicago, Illinois has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine in the amount of $25,000. The nursing home has been cited for failure to apprise their residents of rights and a failure to report allegations of elderly mistreatment or elderly abuse...

National Citizen Coalition for Nursing Home Reform?s Lobbying Activities Help Diminish Elderly Abuse

Posted on June 17, 2009
The National Citizen Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) has created many programs to combat elderly abuse. They are currently conducting a survey of family council members to help NCCNHR learn more about councils and strengthening their ability to provide networking and support to family councils across the country...

Fox River Pavilion in Aurora, Illinois

Posted on June 16, 2009
Fox River Pavilion has received a Type ?A? Violation relating to the area of nursing home negligence was fined $5,000. This violation was based on the home?s lack of employee oversight and inability to implement a proper smoking plan. The Illinois Department of Health produces quarterly reports on nursing home violators...

State Wants to Close Oak Lawn, Illinois Nursing Home

Posted on June 16, 2009
Illinois public health officials plan to try to close an Oak Lawn, Illinois nursing home despite the fact that the Regal Health and Rehab Center is now complying with state regulators. Inspectors from the Illinois Department of Public Health conducted their annual inspections of the nursing home in February and found it in violation of several regulations, including deficiencies in medical equipment, personnel and supervision of residents...

Daughter Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit against Sacred Heart Nursing Home in Chicago

Posted on June 15, 2009
Chicago personal injury attorneys Michael Bonamarte and John Perconti of Levin & Perconti filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sacred Heart Home in Chicago. The complaint was filed on behalf of the victim?s mother in the Circuit Court of Cook County for the severe injuries her mother sustained while under Sacred Heart?s care...

Chicago Nursing Home Neglect Attorney?s Levin & Perconti File Suit against Nursing Home

Posted on June 13, 2009
Levin & Perconti have filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of a Harvard, Illinois woman who alleges that the nursing home failed to prevent a fall that led to her mother?s death. The woman is suing Sacred Heart Home in Chicago after her mother died after suffering from a broken back, head injuries and paralysis after she allegedly fell in a stairwell at the home...

Clearbrook Nursing Home in Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Posted on June 13, 2009
Clearbrook East has received a Type ?A? Violation and a fine assessment of $15,000 for failing to protect their clients. The nursing home must also develop and implement written policies and procedures that prohibit mistreatment, abuse and neglect of their clients...

Proposed Bill would Name Sex Offenders Who Live in Nursing Homes

Posted on June 12, 2009
A lawmaker wants to require nursing homes to notify residents and their families when a sex offender moves into the facility. Under the current law, no notification is required, and nursing homes are not allowed to turn away applicants for being sex offenders...

Two Separate Nursing Homes Fined for Patient Deaths

Posted on June 11, 2009
State officials have fined two nursing homes for providing care that was so inadequate that two patients wrongfully died. One case involved a woman who died from dehydration. The nursing home failed to give the 82-year-old woman sufficient fluids, which caused her to suffer dehydration and acute kidney failure...

What Happens when an Elderly Abuse Victim Cannot Speak?

Posted on June 10, 2009
A daughter was horrified when she walked into an emergency room and saw dark bruises on her 88-year-old mother?s face. The daughter demanded to know what had caused these elderly injuries, but she has received no answers. That is because her mother is unable to talk, due to her advancing dementia...

Alden Village North in Chicago, Illinois

Posted on June 10, 2009
Alden Village North has received a Type ?A? Violation for allowing tube fed clients to eat in their bedrooms. They also received violations for personnel policies. The Illinois Department of Health produces quarterly reports on nursing home violators...

Nursing Home Not Caring for Patients

Posted on June 09, 2009
A neighbor observed that a negligent nursing home when they saw residents wandering the streets at night. After picking the elderly man up from the middle of the street, the neighbor walked him to the come to confront them on what had happened. The nursing home claimed no elderly negligence stating that they would not allow residents to wander the streets, but a subsequent investigation found different information...

Maggots Infest Nursing Home Resident

Posted on June 08, 2009
A nursing home was fined $16,000 by state regulators after a patient was found injured on the floor with maggots crawling out of his leg cast. The home was cited for nursing home negligence in that it failed to have a comprehensive care plan for the resident that included caring for his broken leg...

Department of Health Angry with Alzheimer?s Facility

Posted on June 07, 2009
State Health Inspectors say patients at a local Alzheimer?s assisted living facility were left unattended. The assisted living residence cares for Alzheimer?s patients, but an unannounced inspection found seven residents attended only by a volunteer cook...

Federal Government Initiates a Web Based Program to Rate Nursing Homes

Posted on June 07, 2009
The federal government now has an online tool consumers can use in evaluating the quality of nursing-home care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will start running a pilot program to see if cash incentives to nursing homes can improve the care they provide, especially in areas like nurse staffing and preventable hospitalizations...

Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Reaches Settlement

Posted on June 06, 2009
After almost four years the families of the 23 nursing home residents who died in a fiery bus while evacuating from Hurricane Rita have reached a negligence settlement with the nursing home company. The families have reached a settlement from the nursing home negligence settlement that reaches $80 million...

Elderly Negligence Lawsuit Filed after Nursing Home Fraud

Posted on June 05, 2009
The family of a 95-year-old Illinois woman recently filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit, alleging that she fell on multiple occasions as a result of the nursing home negligence at her facility. The woman suffered multiple hip fractures after she was not properly monitored and supervised on at lest three occasions, despite having Alzheimer?s and dementia...

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