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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Winchester House Pays $1 Million to Levin & Perconti Client

Posted on November 13, 2008
Lake County has agreed to settle a lawsuit with the family of an elderly Illinois woman who died in January 2005 at a nursing home in Libertyville. The settlement is for a $1 million. The seven-figure settlement to be paid to the family of an Alzheimer?s patient who died at the nursing home, is the largest settlement for a nursing home negligence case in Lake County...

Former Nursing Home Worker Charged With Abuse

Posted on November 12, 2008
A former nursing home worker was charged with patient abuse for allegedly slapping an 85-year-old hospice patient only 10 days before she died at her nursing home. The 23-year-old employee allegedly slapped the Alzheimer?s patient. He had only worked there for approximately two months before he was fired two days after the allegedly physical abuse...

Falls Merit Complex Care in Elderly

Posted on November 11, 2008
Once considered an inevitable part of aging, falls are now recognized as complex often preventable events in the elderly. Additionally, falls have multiple causes and consequences which call for a wide range of both psychological and physiological interventions that many patients never receive...

Lake County Pays Levin & Perconti Client $1 Million in Negligence Case

Posted on November 09, 2008
One of Lake County?s largest nursing home negligence lawsuits ended this week with a $1 million payment to the family of a nursing home negligence victim. Lake County agreed to pay the seven-figure settlement to the family of an Alzheimer?s patient who died at 83 while a resident at Winchester House in Libertyville...

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Levin & Perconti Settle Nursing Home Case for $1 Million

Posted on November 08, 2008
One of Lake County, Illinois?s largest nursing home negligence lawsuits ended after the county agreed to a $1 million payment to the family of the woman. Lake County agreed to pay the settlement to the family of an Alzheimer?s patient who died at age 83 while she was a resident at the Winchester House in Libertyville...

US Agency Finds the Monitoring and Sanctioning of Deficient Nursing Homes Lacking

Posted on November 07, 2008
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a press release today indicating that it had created a new administration-transition website with a list of 13 ?urgent issues? requiring the attention of President-Elect Barrack Obama and the 111th Congress...

$1 Million Settlement in Illinois Nursing Home Case

Posted on November 06, 2008
The relatives of a woman who died after repeatedly falling at the county-run nursing home in Libertyville, Illinois will receive $1 million under a finalized settlement. The case was settled out of court after mediation after the 2005 death of 83-year-old...

Levin & Perconti Files Lawsuit against Washington Heights Nursing Home

Posted on November 05, 2008
On October 24,2008, a lawsuit was filed against Washington Heights Nursing Home by John J. Perconti, of the Chicago law firm Levin & Perconti, for nursing home abuse and neglect. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the family of Stanley ?Ted? Dancy, is for personal injuries that Ted sustained while under the nursing home?s care, which contributed to his death...

Autopsy Inconclusive on Death of Nursing Home Resident

Posted on November 05, 2008
An autopsy on a 33-year-old said it cannot be proven from an examination of his exhumed body whether he died from a fall or a blow to the head. The case had been ruled a homicide. There has been a $35 million lawsuit against the nursing home, claiming the man, who was in a vegetative state, was killed rather than died of a seizure...

Wrongful Death of Nursing Home Resident

Posted on November 04, 2008
A lawsuit has been filed for the wrongful death of a nursing home resident. The 33 year old victim, who had suffered a traumatic brain injury at a young age as a result of being beaten, died and the nursing home did not immediately inform the family...

Levin & Perconti Files Nursing Home Negligence Action against South Shore Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Posted on November 03, 2008
A nursing home negligence lawsuit was filed against South Shore Nursing & Rehabilitation Center by attorney John J. Perconti of Levin & Perconti on Friday, October 24, 2008. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the family of Lula Moore of Chicago, is for the personal injuries Lula suffered as a resident at South Shore, which lead to her death on November, 17, 2007...

Nursing Home Workers Charged with Mistreating Patients and Falsifying Records

Posted on November 02, 2008
Four more workers at a nursing home, two of them caught on hidden camera, were charged yesterday with mistreating patients and falsifying records. The Attorney General?s records show that one resident of the nursing home had not showered for a month, an 84-year old female resident was rushed to the hospital because a nurse had failed to order routine blood tests; and an 84-year-old man was not turned to prevent sores...

Nursing Home Administrator Found to Verbally and Mentally Abuse Patients

Posted on November 01, 2008
A state investigation of a nursing home found that residents were subjected to immediate jeopardy because of verbal and mental abuse by its former administrator. The state Health Department investigated after four complaints were filed about the specific administrator...

Nursing Home Resident Files Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Fraud

Posted on October 31, 2008
A nursing home resident filed a federal lawsuit alleging consumer fraud by a Milwaukee-based care chain with eight facilities in Minnesota. The suit was filed on behalf of as many as 1,400 residents of the eight Extendicare homes. The suit was filed by a woman who says Extendicare promises more than it can deliver, resulting in increased earnings yet poor care for residents and hundreds of rule violations in Minnesota...

Ex-nurse Sentenced for Abuse of Nursing Home Patient

Posted on October 30, 2008
A former certified nurse?s aide was placed on probation for breaking an elderly woman?s hand and spraying foam into her mouth. The 22-year old nurse was sentenced to five years? probation and will also be placed on 90 days electronic home monitoring...

Families in Turmoil When Nursing Home Closes

Posted on October 29, 2008
Many family members are scrambling to find placement for their loved ones after a nursing home is on the verge of closing. The nursing homes Medicaid contract will expire Nov. 1. State health officials met with family members to help with the process, and the state said that they are only required by law to give a 15-day notice to the nursing home...

Nursing Home Fined After Allowing Resident to Choke to Death

Posted on October 28, 2008
Officials of a nursing home say they are appealing a $100,000 state fine for the death of a resident who choked on a ketchup packet. The state Department of Public Health issued the fine in July, after the man?s 2006 death. Investigators had found 85-year-old man often tried to eat inedible objects, yet the operators of the nursing home did not have a plan to keep the man safe from himself...

Nursing Home Fined After Falling Closet Door Kills Patient

Posted on October 28, 2008
A nursing home was fined by the state after an elderly patient died when an unbolted closet fell on her head. The 90-year-old woman had suffered from dementia and heart disease. She was the third patient in less than a year to be injured at the nursing home by an unsecured closet...

10 Things to Know When Choosing An Assisted Living Facility

Posted on October 22, 2008
Dr. Cheryl Woodson, a season geriatrician, has come up with 10 ways to navigate the care giving maze. First she tells us that assisted living is a myth and to avoid them because they are not permitted by law to provide medical care. The doctor also suggests that a nursing home properly assess the elderly patient?s physical and cognitive health before they admit them into an assisted living facility...

Woman Missing From Assisted Living Facility Found in Chicago

Posted on October 21, 2008
A mentally and physically disabled woman who walked away from her assisted living residence in Missouri was found in Chicago. The woman was promptly returned to her nursing home back in Cape Giradeau, Missouri. The woman lives in a nursing home that allows clients to come and go, as long as they sign out and say what time they will return...

Toxins Force Illinois Nursing Home to Evacuate Residents

Posted on October 20, 2008
Residents of Bourbonnais Terrace in Bourbonnais, Illinois were evacuated from their facility after the discovery of toxic asbestos. The building was forced to be temporarily closed due to the toxic asbestos. The nursing home has 197 patients, primarily mentally ill and immediate-care patients...

Former Care Home Workers Accused of Neglect

Posted on October 15, 2008
Two certified nursing assistants at an assisted living center received summonses after an elderly woman fell out of a chair and spent hours sleeping on the floor covered in her own urine and vomit. The two nurses each face a misdemeanor charge of negligence for the alleged incident that occurred at the nursing home...

Nurse Found Guilty in Nursing Home Death Case Sentenced; Supervisor?s Sentencing Delayed

Posted on October 15, 2008
Cammy Nye, a certified nursing assistant, was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 700 hours of community service, and three years of probation after an Oregon jury found her guilty of contributing to the death of nursing home patient Linda Ober. Suzanne Ruddell, the nursing supervisor, was also found guilty but her sentencing has been delayed after her lawyer requested a pre-sentencing investigation...

Nursing Home Employee Had Criminal History

Posted on October 13, 2008
A nurse who was convicted of child abuse and battery against her 17-year-old son and was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill patients at a nursing home was subsequently employed by a nursing home. The nursing home was never aware of these past convictions and allegations because they never fingerprinted the employee...

Families Need to Research When Choosing A Nursing Home

Posted on October 13, 2008
Since reports issued claimed that 90 percent of nursing homes were sited for at least one deficiency this past year, it is important for family members to choose the right nursing home. Surprisingly, for-profit nursing homes are getting more citations that government run homes...

Nursing Home Violations Cause Concern

Posted on October 10, 2008
The epidemic of poor care in nursing home, highlighted by a new government report, has people calling for better incentives for the nursing home industry as a whole. A bad incentive for the industry arises from the ability of nursing home facilities to shunt series cases of nursing home abuse or injury in into a secretive, industry-controlled arbitration system...

Celebrate Long-Term Care Resident?s Week

Posted on October 09, 2008
Across the country resident?s of nursing homes will honor the individual rights of long-term care residents by celebrating Resident?s Right?s Week from October 5 to the 11th. Designated by the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, the week highlights the importance of resident participation in discussions about improving the quality of care in their long-term care facilities...

Extendicare Lawsuit Expanded to Include More Charges

Posted on October 08, 2008
The class action lawsuit against Extendicare Nursing Homes has been expanded to include additional charges. The company, which owns 15 nursing homes accused of nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect has been charged with accepting patients regardless of if they had the ability to help them out in the way they required, for advertising care beyond what they provided and for violating a law that did not allow patients to sign waivers to keep them from suing for personal injuries or property loss...

Nursing Home Death Trial Wraps Up

Posted on October 08, 2008
Closing Arguments are set in the case against two former nursing home workers accused of failing to get medical help for a patient who was dropped and suffered two broken legs. The patient, a 60-year old woman, was injured while getting transferred from a wheelchair to a bed...

Two Found Guilty in Nursing Home Death

Posted on October 08, 2008
An Oregon jury returned guilty verdicts Monday in a criminal case against two nursing home employees involved in the dropping and subsequent death of a nursing home resident. Linda Ober, a 60-year-old resident at Gateway nursing home in Portland, Oregon, was dropped to the floor while being transferred from a wheelchair to her bed, breaking both of her legs...

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