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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Comatose Nursing Home Patient Sexually Assaulted by Nurse

Posted on June 04, 2009
The guardians of a comatose woman have filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against the nursing home where their loved one was sexually assaulted by a male nurse. The nursing home abuse lawsuit claims that the center should have known that the male employee?s conduct would violate the woman?s privacy and dignity...

NPR : How One States? Budget Cuts Affect Elder Abuse Investigations

Posted on June 04, 2009
The June 3rd edition of ?Morning Edition? on National Public Radio highlighted the devastating effects that one states? budget cuts are having on its growing elderly population. The states? budget cuts have slashed the number of caseworkers who are responsible for investigating instances of physical elder abuse and financial exploitation of the elderly...

Nursing Home Sued Over 95-year-old Resident?s fall

Posted on June 03, 2009
The guardian of a disabled 95-year-old woman says the elderly resident fell and fractured both of her hips while under the care of a nursing home. The guardian filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against the nursing home. When the elderly woman was admitted to the nursing home, employees were aware that she suffered from Alzheimer?s and dementia and was usually disoriented and confused...

NAELA Announces National Call-In Day for Long-Term Care Inclusion in Health Care Reform

Posted on June 03, 2009
The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys is urging people to call their Representatives on June 4, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST to ask their members of Congress to include long-term care in future health care reform. Right now, long-term care options are often unaffordable for families and the needs of many seniors go unmet...

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Levin & Peronti Nursing Home?s Blog Ranks in Top 100

Posted on June 02, 2009
The Avvo blog website has ranked the top 300 legal blogs on the internet. Levin & Perconti?s Nursing Home Abuse Blog has ranked in the top 100 legal blogs and comes in and 96. Levin & Perconti is committed to informing the community on issues that affect our elderly such as nursing home negligence and elderly abuse...

Community Meeting For Nursing Home Justice June 8

Posted on June 01, 2009
The Civic Action Network is holding a community meeting for nursing home justice. The meeting will take place on Monday June 8, 2009 at the Bray Temple CME Church located at 1049 E. 73rd Street in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will take place from 6:30-8:00 PM...

Disparate Nursing Home Care in Illinois

Posted on May 30, 2009
The wrongful death of an 85-year-old Chicago resident launched an investigation by The Chicago Reporter to determine the qualities of nursing home throughout the Illinois are. The investigation found that the specific South Side nursing home has the worst rating that any home can receive and that residents get less than half the time each day with staff than residents at a predominately white facility in Evanston which is operated by the same owner...

Nursing Home Doctor Fails to Disclose Background

Posted on May 29, 2009
A woman claims that a nursing home doctor gave false information when applying for a medical license. The doctor?s license would have been suspended had it not been for a $3,000 fine. The doctor?s license had been suspended in four states. The daughter of a deceased nursing home patient was unaware of the sanctions against the doctor, who treated her mother for four years...

Illinois Nursing Home Sued over Resident?s Care

Posted on May 29, 2009
A woman is claiming she received injuries after a Cahokia, Illinois nursing home failed to provide adequate care. The woman filed the nursing home negligence lawsuit in St. Clair County Circuit Court. The elderly negligence lawsuit alleges that employees at the center failed to care for her as they should have by failing to develop an individualized comprehensive care plan to ensure that she was kept clean to prevent infection in the skin of her abdominal folds...

Two Women Face Elder Abuse Trial

Posted on May 28, 2009
Two women are set to stand trial on unrelated charges that they abused elderly patients in their care. One 27-year-old woman is set to go on trial for the elderly abuse of a 98-year-old woman in her care at the nursing home. The other 21-year-old woman is charged with elderly abuse after attacking a 76-year-old woman...

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Comes on June 15

Posted on May 27, 2009
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day falls on the fifteenth of June each year. This day serves as a call-to-action for individuals, organizations and communities to come together and raise awareness about elder abuse, neglect and exploitation. Activities such as developing an educational program or press conference or volunteering to call or visit an isolated senior who may be at risk of elder abuse, neglect or exploitation are ways to observe this day...

Nursing Home Loses Medicare and Medicaid Funds

Posted on May 25, 2009
More than two dozen residents of a nursing home that is losing its Medicare and Medicaid funding are being forced to move. The nursing home is having its certification pulled because of deficiencies found by state health inspectors. The deficiencies centered on medical and nursing home neglect...

Home Cited for Employee Cell Phone Use

Posted on May 24, 2009
State officials have cited a nursing home for improper cell phone use by employees. This citation took place after investigators said staff members took cell phone photos of residents. They then attached sexually explicit lyrics and sent them as text messages to other workers...

Four Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuits Remain after Natural Disaster

Posted on May 23, 2009
Only four nursing home negligence lawsuits remain against the owners of the nursing home where 35 people died following Hurricane Katrina. Settlements have been reached in the remaining 34 wrongful death suits and 12 personal injury cases. The nursing home owners were acquitted of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm approached...

Nursing Home Worker Charged with Elderly Abuse

Posted on May 22, 2009
A former nursing assistant was arrested and charged with felony elder abuse. The woman allegedly kicked a 76-year-old woman in the back and slapped her in the face. The elder abuser and two other employees were helping the elderly woman get up from a fall in the bathroom...

Nursing Home Fatality Leads to Three Disciplined Employees

Posted on May 21, 2009
Three nursing home employees have been disciplined with elderly negligence after a state investigation revealed the death of a 93-year old resident at an assisted-living facility. The health department discovered the elderly negligence in that the employees each noticed that the deceased resident was not in his room but failed to report it...

Nursing Homes May Need Fines to Get their Attention

Posted on May 20, 2009
When a nursing home resident?s minor injury is left untreated and thus progresses to something major that will inevitably kill her, the nursing home should be fined. This is equally true when one resident beats another in a nursing home cafeteria because there?s no staff member there to stop it...

State asks Nursing Home Employees to limit Cell Phone Use

Posted on May 19, 2009
A state is asking their nursing homes to limit employees? use of cell phones to prevent improper use of the devices in incidents involving residents. This comes after an investigation that revealed that staff members attached sexually explicit lyrics to photos of residents and sent them as text messages to other employees...

Nursing Home Resident Physically Abused

Posted on May 18, 2009
Criminal charges have been lodged against a former nursing home worker for physically abusing an 88-year-old wheelchair-bound resident in the nursing home that resulted in a broken clavicle and other injuries. The complaint stated that he man admitted that he struck, grabbed and pushed an 88-year-old bedridden woman who was suffering form dementia and impaired vision...

Woman Charged in Elder Abuse Case

Posted on May 18, 2009
Three women have been jailed on elder abuse allegations that they were involved in a scam that bilked an elderly man out of more than $150,000 he received from a settlement. One woman is charged with two counts of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult...

Nursing Home Patient Alleges Sexual Assault

Posted on May 17, 2009
The police are investigating a local nursing home after a 78-year-old patient alleged she was sexually assaulted by a male staff member. A resident at the nursing home claimed that a CN touched her inappropriately. The nursing home director reported the incident to police three days after it allegedly occurred...

Elder Abuse Charged at Nursing Home

Posted on May 15, 2009
A health-care worker is charged with physically abusing an 88-year-old bed-ridden resident at the medical center?s nursing home. The man, a former-nurse aide, is accused of hitting, grabbing and punching the visually and dementia-impaired woman. This elderly abuse left her with a broken collarbone and facial bruising...

State?s Decision Calls for Lower Fines in Illinois Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Cases

Posted on May 14, 2009
An Illinois judge handed down a ruling that said the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) illegally increased fines against nursing homes. The IDPH may no longer fine a nursing home more than $10,000. This comes as a blow to many nursing home advocates who fear that lowering fines will cause an increase in poor quality care...

Family Sues Illinois Nursing Home in Alleged Sex Attack

Posted on May 14, 2009
The family of a 69-year-old woman has filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against an Illinois nursing home for failing to protect her from being sexually assaulted by a 21-year-old mentally ill resident. The Elgin facility tried to cover up a brutal rape by calling it consensual sex...

Woman Criticizes Nursing Home after Mother Dies

Posted on May 13, 2009
A woman believes her mother died after nursing home negligence. The woman has filed a elderly negligence lawsuit against the nursing home. She also claims that her mother had a $400 ring stolen from her while she was in the nursing home. The victim was also being given medicines she did not order like insulin, potassium, antibiotics and Cuma-din...

Area Nursing Home Employee is charged with Theft

Posted on May 12, 2009
A nursing home employee has been charged with felonies in the theft of a credit card from a patient at the home. The police say the 25-year-old employee stole a credit card and then tried to get money from the ATM machine. A bank employee called the police to report suspicious activity and the man threw the credit card in the trash can...

During National Nursing Home Week learn how to find the Best Nursing Home

Posted on May 11, 2009
There are certain steps that a person should check when trying to find the nursing home that is best for them. First, you should find nursing homes in your area. Then it is important to compare the quality of nursing homes you are considering. One way to do this is to look at health inspections and fire safety inspection reports, nursing home staffing rates, and quality measures...

Alzheimer?s Drug Seroquel Causes Side Effects

Posted on May 09, 2009
Research has found that Seroquel anger is a serious side effect that can cause injury to patients who are taking this antipsychotic medication. Elderly patients who are taking Seroquel for the treatment of dementia or Alzheimer?s seem to have the greatest risk of suffering from the anger side effect...

Nursing Home Aide Accused of Sexually abusing 78-year-old Patient

Posted on May 08, 2009
A 52-year-old man who worked at a nursing home has been charged with sexually abusing a 78-year-old patient. The man is formally charged with felony sex abuse, misdemeanor third-degree sex abuse for the incidents, alleged to have place at the center for approximately a month...

Man Charged with Molesting Fellow Nursing Home Resident

Posted on May 08, 2009
A 72-year-old man was arrested and charged with molesting a 53-year-old woman with the mental capacity of a 5-year-old at their nursing home. The man was charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a disabled person. The man was seen touching the woman?s breast...

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