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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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House Bill Will Protect Nursing Home Residents

Posted on February 12, 2009
A bill was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives that will help put an end to unfair mandatory arbitration agreements. The bill, introduced by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), would put an end to pre-dispute arbitration agreements that nursing home residents and their family members are often forced to sign when completing nursing home contracts...

Nursing Home Caregiver Slept while Wheelchair-Bound man Wandered

Posted on February 12, 2009
A caregiver at an assisted-living facility was arrested after police found a disoriented elderly patient wandering along a busy road. The 31 year old man faces one count of elderly neglect without bodily harm which is a third degree felony. Police said that he slept while a 78-year-old under his car escaped the nursing home and rode his wheelchair about a third of a mile to the road...

Three Employees Stand Trial in Nursing Home Assaults

Posted on February 11, 2009
Three former employees at a nursing home will stand trial on charges that they abused an elderly Alzheimer?s patient. Authorities say the three women all physically abused one elderly patient at the nursing home. The alleged elderly abuse included punching the victim in the face and stamping on her feet over a six-month period...

Illinois Nursing Home Troubled by Violations

Posted on February 11, 2009
A Berwyn, Illinois nursing home has been hit with additional serious health violations. The Illinois Department of Health released an inspection report showing that investigators found six violations at the Berwyn Rehabilitation Center. One such violation stated that the nursing home failed to quickly treat patients with wounds...

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Illinois Woman Freezes to Death After Wandering from Nursing Home

Posted on February 10, 2009
89-year old Sara Wentworth of the Chicago suburb of Itasca was found frozen to death after wandering from her bed at a nursing home on February 5. Sara was found in the nursing home's courtyard. Sara's daughter noted that police informed her that her mother wandered through two doors before entering into the nursing home's courtyard...

Tips on How to Choose a Nursing Home

Posted on February 09, 2009
The following tips can be used in choosing a good nursing home that has no record of elder neglect. First, review the home?s most recent annual inspection report, which must be posted at the facility. You may ask the nursing homes about previous inspection reports and complaint investigations...

Woman Sought in Elder Neglect Case

Posted on February 09, 2009
Police are currently looking for a woman who they believe has committed elderly neglect. The woman is facing seven felony charges for her lack of care and economic exploitation of the man. According to investigators, the man lived at a nursing home where the woman worked...

Nursing Home Worker Arrested in Sex Assault

Posted on February 08, 2009
An East Moline, Illinois nursing home employee is facing a felony sexual assault charge for an alleged elderly abuse incident involving an 82-year-old female resident. Police were called to the nursing home to investigate the alleged sexual assault. This alleged elderly sexual abuse took place at the Parkview Terrace nursing home in East Moline...

Elderly Woman Allegedly Raped at Nursing Home

Posted on February 07, 2009
An Illinois man is behind bars after police say he sexually assaulted an 82-year-old woman at a Parkview Terrace nursing home. He was arrested after a nursing home employee saw him raping a woman. The court records show that a 57-year-old worker at the nursing home had sexual intercourse with an 82-year-old resident...

Illinois Nursing Home Changes Look

Posted on February 06, 2009
Sunny Hill Nursing Home in Joliet, Illinois is changing its facility to allow their residents more independence. Schedules that once were set in stone are now more flexible and accommodating. The residents can decide when to wake up, when to bathe, when to exercise and what to eat...

Study Finds Family Members Likely to Abuse Elderly

Posted on February 06, 2009
After surveying adult tending to relatives with dementia concluded that elder abuse should be viewed as a ?spectrum of behaviors rather than all-or-nothing phenomenon.? Also, the survey exposes an old myth that is untrue ? that abuse of elders happens at the hands of paid caregivers and not family members...

Crowd Demands Nursing Home Remains Open

Posted on February 05, 2009
At a public hearing before the state Department of Social Services an angry crowd argued for more than an hour against closings a town?s only nursing home. More than 100 people jammed the hearing room contesting the nursing home?s closure. Genesis Healthcare sent a letter of intent to the Department of Social Services seeking permission to close the home...

Man Gets 6 Months in Jail for Elderly Financial Exploitation

Posted on February 05, 2009
A former caregiver at a nursing home who was accused of stealing the checkbooks of two elderly residents was sentenced to six months in jail. The man was charged in an embezzling scheme and pled no contest to three felony counts of financial elder abuse...

Problems Found with Nursing Home Rating System

Posted on February 04, 2009
Some believe that the five-star facility rating system may not be the best of the best. The system only compares the homes against the peers statewide, instead of against the 15,800 nationwide. The system also automatically assigns five stars, which is the highest possible, to the top 10 percent...

Woman Survives Cancer and then Dies in Nursing Home from Salmonella

Posted on February 04, 2009
A 72-year-old woman had survived lung cancer and a brain tumor and was looking forward to being able to leave her nursing home for the holidays. Unfortunately, her family is now grieving the wrongful death of the woman who died from salmonella poising...

Nursing Home Directors See Pay Raise

Posted on February 03, 2009
Directors of nursing homes saw a slight pay increase in the last year. The national average salary rose about 400 dollars from $60,000 in 2008 from $59,627 in 2007. Residential nurses and certified nursing assistants in nursing homes fared even better and received a 3...

Man Admits to Taking $400,000 from an Elderly Nun

Posted on February 03, 2009
A financial planner admitted that he was stole nearly $400,000 from an elderly nun who entrusted him with her life savings before she suffered a debilitating stroke. The Illinois man faces up to 15 years in prison for felony theft. The nun died penniless at age 92...

Nursing Home Owner Convicted of Theft

Posted on February 03, 2009
A former nursing home owner has pled guilty to two counts of criminal elderly mistreatment in connection with the theft of more than $58,000. The woman owned a nursing home that housed Alzheimer?s patients. She was sentenced to 12 months in jail and ordered to pay more than $50,000 in restitution...

Police Arrest Nursing Home Care Taker

Posted on February 02, 2009
A nursing home care taker has been taken into custody and charged with stealing from an elderly couple at the home. The care taker defrauded the couple by using their debit cards at several businesses. She removed the card from the elderly couple?s room and went to three different locations...

Director of Group Home Faces Felony Abuse Charges

Posted on February 01, 2009
A man with severe autism received second and third-degree burns while in the care of a group home. The 27-year-old was personally injured while staying with the group home. After a long investigation, the staff director of the group home admitted that she had burned the man with hot water in a nursing home abuse incident...

State Proposes Legislation that would Require Background Checks for Nursing Health Aides

Posted on February 01, 2009
One state has a legislative proposal that would require background checks on home health care workers. The idea would require home health agencies to conduct criminal background reviews on all aids they employ and assign to clients? homes. The legislation would also prohibit agencies from hiring anyone convicted of a felony within the past 10 years...

2 Nursing Aides Charged with Abuse

Posted on January 31, 2009
Two nursing home assistants were charged with elder abuse in separate incidents. One worker is accused of physical abusing an 88-year-old resident in his ribs while she worked as a certified nurse aid at a nursing home. The other nursing home aide is accused of using a 76-year-old resident?s nightgown to tie his neck and neck and legs leaving him unable to move...

Pressure Ulcer Infections Can Lead to Sepsis, Death

Posted on January 30, 2009
Pressure Ulcers, which unfortunately occur relatively frequently as a result nursing home negligence, run a serious risk of infection, and worse; sepsis. Sepsis, a biological response to infections, can kill an adult within hours. Sepsis can form as a result of a skin infection, such as a pressure ulcer, and spread throughout the body shutting down vital organs...

Woman Dies in Nursing Home from Salmonella

Posted on January 30, 2009
The relatives of a 72-year-old woman whose wrongful death seems to be linked to the widespread peanut butter salmonella outbreak are looking for answers. The complaint states that the woman had been temporarily staying in a nursing home died after being infected by a salmonella strain linked to the nationwide outbreak...

Nursing Home Caregiver Faces Battery Charges

Posted on January 27, 2009
A certified nursing assistant is facing felony trial after she allegedly punched a 94-year-old nursing home resident in the mouth. The woman is charged with felony battery resulting in bodily injury to a woman who was an endangered adult at the time of the incident...

Nursing home aide to serve 30 days in jail

Posted on January 25, 2009
A nursing home employee who was charged with elder abuse pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and will serve 30 days in jail. She was charged with elder abuse after she was accused of hitting the 74 year-old woman with a clipboard and an incontinence pad, as well as pulling her hair and slapping her...

Nursing Home Faces $13 Million Lawsuit

Posted on January 25, 2009
A family has filed a wrongful death suit against a nursing home claiming $10 million in punitive damages and $3 million in compensatory damages. Three daughters of a nursing home patient have filed the suit alleging instances of elderly negligence that they believed contributed to the woman?s death...

How to spot elder abuse

Posted on January 24, 2009
Charges of nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect are rising across the country, but there are certain things that families of nursing home residents can do to spot elder abuse before it causes wrongful death or severe injury. Examine your loved one for bedsores and bruises...

Nursing Home Negligence Case Reaches $400 K Verdict

Posted on January 23, 2009
Last year a jury faulted a nursing home for the wrongful death of a 94-year old woman and awarded the family $400,000 in damages. During the trial, one of the woman?s sons testified that his mother had been so badly neglected that it started to ?smell like an animal had died? inside his mother?s room during her stay at the nursing home...

Illinois caregiver gets 180 days for theft

Posted on January 23, 2009
An Illinois woman caring for a woman with terminal brain cancer was sentenced to 180 days in jail for stealing money from the victim?s Illinois home. The caregiver was also placed on 2 years probation in this case of Illinois elder abuse. For the full article...

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