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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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

Nursing Home Abuse Found After Employee Revealed Information to Family of Victim

Posted on October 07, 2008
A resident of a nursing home died suddenly, at the end of last year. The wife of the victim did not suspect any foul play, until she received a call from the mother of an employee of the nursing home informing her that her husband had died after repeated physical abuse...

Violations At Nursing Home Prompts New Reporting System

Posted on October 06, 2008
Federal investigators stated that more than 90% of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year. In response to this alarming number, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a compliance guide for nursing homes that says some homes ?have systematically failed to provide staff in sufficient numbers with appropriate clinical expertise to serve their residents...

More nursing home abuse allegations face elder care operator

Posted on October 05, 2008
An amended complaint has been filed by nursing home attorneys in a class action lawsuit against an elder care operator. The original complaint alleges nursing home abuse and neglect in cheating elderly residents and misrepresenting itself to prospective residents...

Medicare Won?t Pay for Medical Errors

Posted on October 05, 2008
Medicare has put 10 ?reasonably preventable? conditions on its initial list of reasons why it will stop paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their care. Medicare has stated it will not pay when patients receive incompatible blood transfusions, develop infections after certain surgeries or undergo a second operation to retrieve a sponge left behind from the first...

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Man Charged With Raping Dying Nursing-Home Patient

Posted on October 04, 2008
Police have charged a man with raping a dying 70-year-old nursing home patient with Alzheimer?s disease and a brain tumor. Doctors had determined that the woman has less than six months to live. The man is being held for trial on 15 counts of rape and related charges...

State?s Governor Sings Senior Protection Bills

Posted on October 03, 2008
California?s Governor has signed a package of bills that will ensure care facilities for the elderly are prepared during disasters and power outages, provide law enforcement with more tools to ensure criminals who victimize the elderly are prosecuted and further protect against different forms of financial abuse...

Nurse Told Co-Owner About ?Angel of Death? in Nursing Home

Posted on October 01, 2008
A report found that a nurse repeatedly told administrators that she feared a coworker was improperly drugging patients to keep them quiet during her shift. The Illinois Department of Public Health report states that the administrators did nothing to stop it...

Report Finds 90 Percent of Nursing Homes Had Violations

Posted on September 30, 2008
Federal Investigators reported that more than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year, and for-profit homes were more likely to have problems than other types of nursing homes. About 17 percent of those nursing homes had deficiencies that caused ?actual harm or immediate jeopardy? to patients...

Investigation of Nursing Home Reveals Deaths

Posted on September 29, 2008
A state report issued after there were six mysterious deaths at a Chicago, Illinois nursing home shows that the deaths may not have been mercy killings. The report indicates that the nursing home residents were killed because they were too difficult to deal with...

Abuse of Elderly Goes Undetected Too Often

Posted on September 28, 2008
Statistics show that elder neglect can be hidden, hard to prove and even underreported. A state?s Department of Children and Families found that adults make up about 18 percent of their abuse cases. Most of those involved the elderly or people who looked senior...

Former Nursing Home Employee Convicted of Theft

Posted on September 27, 2008
A former nursing home employee pled guilty to first-degree theft of $14,373 from a nursing home. The employee was sentenced to two years, which was suspended, placed on probation for five years, ordered to pay full restitution and fined $500. The employee opened a Sam?s Wholesale Club credit card account while employed as an account?s payable and payroll clerk in the name of the nursing home...

Caretaker of woman found in suitcase jailed

Posted on September 26, 2008
In an awful case of elder abuse and neglect, police are reporting that a woman used the credit cards of the elderly woman she was supposed to be caring for days before the woman was found dead in a suitcase. Now, the caretaker is facing theft charges in an unrelated case...

Report States Nursing Home Deaths Were Not Mercy Killings

Posted on September 26, 2008
A report has found that the death of six elderly patients at a nursing home in 2006 may have been the work of a nurse overdosing patients she found to be troublesome or believed had lived long enough. A 130-page report from the Illinois Department of Public Health claims that the nurse told co-workers she gave restless patients drug cocktails to keep them calm and flatly stated that ?she made sure? one patient would not make it through the day...

Family Looking for Answers After Nursing Home Patient Found Covered in Bruises

Posted on September 26, 2008
A family is looking for answers after a member of their family was found covered in bruises while she was a patient at the nursing home. The employees of the nursing home informed the family that she was injured when she fell, but this story does not seem believable...

McHenry County, Illinois Nursing Home Fined Nearly $360,000 in Angel of Death Case

Posted on September 26, 2008
A McHenry County, Illinois nursing home was fined nearly $360,000 after regulators alleged that an employee used drug cocktails to ensure residents ?would not be bothering her during her shift.? These fines were imposed after the Illinois Department of Public Health concluded that improper use of drugs like morphine sulfate contributed to the deaths in 2006 at the Illinois facility...

Nursing Home Employee Mixed Drug Cocktails to Quiet Resident

Posted on September 25, 2008
An employee of a McHenry County, Illinois nursing home is at the center of an investigation into suspicious deaths is accused of mixing drug cocktails to make sure that troublesome residents ?would not be bothering her during her shift.? A 130-page report of an investigation by the Illinois Department of Public Health says that improper use of drugs such as morphine sulfate contributed to five suspicious deaths in 2006 at the Woodstock, Illinois nursing home...

Family Claims that Nursing Home Contributed to Patient?s Death

Posted on September 25, 2008
A veteran?s family is trying to understand how their father wrongfully died shortly after he arrived at a nursing home. The family states that the nursing home?s lack of attention was the issue that finally killed him. The victim, a US veteran, was described as very compassionate, caring, gentle and full of integrity...

Patient Death Raises Questions as to Nursing Home Negligence

Posted on September 24, 2008
The deaths of two patients at a nursing home has trigged a state attorney general?s investigation and the forced sale or shutting of the facility. It is not known when the deaths at the nursing home occurred or the details surrounding those specific patients...

Second Suit filed in ?Angel of Death? case

Posted on September 22, 2008
The family of a former Chicago area nursing home resident has filed a lawsuit against the nursing home for his wrongful death. The suit claims that he received an ?unnecessary? dose of morphine and died one day later as a result. This case is of particular interest because it was filed just a couple weeks after the family of another nursing home resident from the same home filed a wrongful death case for the death of their family member...

Nursing Home Fined in Connection with Patient Death

Posted on September 22, 2008
A nursing home received a $21,000 fine for violations that led to the wrongful death of one of their patients. The victim died of complications related to dehydration. He had lived at the nursing home for 4 months and the nursing home had been neglecting his needs by failing to monitor his fluid intake, leading to his dehydration and eventually his wrongful death...

Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act Important

Posted on September 22, 2008
In nursing homes across the countries, employees were hired who had criminal backgrounds for numerous felons. By hiring these employees, the nursing home had placed their patients into a dangerous situation. This reason alone is why the U.S. Senate Finance Committee?s Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act is so important...

Senate Finance Committee Approves Two bills to Help Prevent Elderly Abuse

Posted on September 21, 2008
The Senate Finance Committee approved two bills that seek to prevent neglect and abuse of elderly patients. One bill would authorize $777 million to establish state and local training and assistance programs for long-term care employees. The legislation would establish a database used to identify and track elder abuse cases...

State Will Prosecute Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on September 21, 2008
A state?s Attorney General?s Office will prosecute the adults who took part in physical and sexual nursing home abuse. The Attorney General?s office will take over because the county?s relationship with the girl?s family. The government felt that a third party outside of the community would be better suited for carrying out the task...

Nursing Home Worker Accused of Drug Thefts

Posted on September 19, 2008
A nursing home employee has been arrested for stealing pain medication from elderly patients. The employee stole medication from at least two patients who were 92 and 97. Although there are only two known victims, there may be more. The nursing home employee was arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and two counts of first-degree theft...

Second Lawsuit Filed in ?Angel of Death? Case

Posted on September 19, 2008
A second wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against the former owners of a Woodstock, Illinois nursing home. Two former nurses are at the center of a police investigation into suspicious deaths in the home. The mother of a 52 year old resident who wrongfully died at the nursing home filed a suit that her son was given lethal doses of morphine...

Alzheimer?s Patients Respond Well to Effective Communication

Posted on September 19, 2008
Studies have found that those who care for patients with Alzheimer?s disease should not talk to them like children. A report issued at the 2008 Alzheimer?s Association International Conference found that adults with Alzheimer?s in nursing homes who were talked to like children were more resistant to care...

Levin & Perconti Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Nursing Home Patient?s Family

Posted on September 17, 2008
Levin & Perconti has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the family of a Chicago area nursing home patient, against the nursing home where he was a patient, for negligence and wrongful death. The lawsuit states that he was neglected while in the nursing home and that his health deteriorated while he was under their care which eventually led to his death...

State?s Attorney General?s Office Reviews Allegations of Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on September 16, 2008
An investigation aided by the attorney general?s office has been launched after allegations of sexual abuse at a nursing home were reported. The details of abuse allegations surfaced after four teenage girls were released from a nursing home. The girls were accused of verbally, sexually and emotionally abusing the residents at the nursing home...

Residents Frantically Look For Housing as Assisted Living Home Loses License

Posted on September 16, 2008
A state decided to suspend an adult care home?s license after inspectors concluded that conditions put residents in imminent danger. This decision sent 60 residents scrambling to find new homes, mostly assisted living homes. State legislators found that the home was not properly supervising residents in terms of their comings and goings...

Feds Probing Complaint at Illinois Nursing Home

Posted on September 14, 2008
An anonymous complaint brought federal investigators to an Illinois nursing home. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent investigators from a Medicare/Medicaid fraud unit to the nursing home. The unannounced visit is part of an ongoing investigation which arose from an anonymous complaint...

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