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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

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Illinois Citizens for Better Care Release a Guide to Admitting Loved Ones to Nursing Homes

Posted on January 22, 2009
Illinois Citizens for Better Care (ICBC) has recently released an informational guide about the processes, rights, and procedures involved in the admitting of a loved one to a nursing home care facility. Most nursing home litigation results when the standard policies and procedures required by law are not followed stringently...

Jury Awards $1.25 Million in Nursing Home Negligence Suit

Posted on January 22, 2009
A jury has determined that a nursing home patient?s death was caused by elderly negligence on the part of his caretakers. The court awarded the man?s daughter $1.25 million, ending a four-year elderly abuse lawsuit. The man was admitted to the nursing home at the age of 67 and had to go to the hospital a mere nine months later...

Man Sentenced in Nursing Home Sex Abuse Case

Posted on January 19, 2009
A former night shift nursing home nurse was sentenced to 12 ½ years in prison after entering a plea of guilty to four count of sexual battery and one count of gross sexual imposition. The 50-year-old man was videotaped telling authorities that he abused about 100 patients at various nursing homes since the 1980s...

Elder Abuse Support Group Forms in Minnesota Abuse Case

Posted on January 16, 2009
A support group for elderly people who have suffered abuse and neglect at nursing homes will start holding meetings. The group is called Families Against Nursing Home Abuse and it is coming together not only for emotional support, but to utilize the opportunity to turn a bad situation into a good outcome...

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Case Law Update: State Rules Against Arbitration Agreement in Nursing Home Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on January 16, 2009
Ward v. National Healthcare Corporation, No. SC89398 ruled that the family of Dorothy Lawrence can go forward with their wrongful death suit against a Missouri nursing home. Ms. Lawrence died while in the care of Beverly Manor due to injuries which she incurred after being dropped by employees...

Nursing Home Cited for Abuse and Neglect

Posted on January 15, 2009
A nursing home has been cited for alleged abuse and neglect, prompting the federal government to halt the nursing home?s funding. The nursing home has been notified that it will no longer receive Medicare and Medicaid Services. The 83-bed facility has 166 residents who will be without funding due to the elderly abuse allegations...

Elderly woman with brain cancer financially exploited by caregiver

Posted on January 14, 2009
In a case of elder financial abuse, an in-home caregiver from Maywood, Illinois was arrested last year for stealing about $300 from the home of a woman with terminal brain cancer. Elders in nursing homes and those being cared for at other facilities or their own homes are at serious risk for financial exploitation, a form of elder abuse...

CMS Puts Pressure on Nursing Homes to Prevent Bed Sores

Posted on January 13, 2009
CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has published new guidelines regarding pressure sores (decubitus ulcers). SNFs (Skilled Nursing Facilities), like nursing homes and long-term care facilities, are commonly cited for elder abuse and neglect...

72 year-old Man Starves to Death in Nursing Home

Posted on January 13, 2009
A man suffering from dementia was starved to death by his nursing home staff. Since the 72-year-old man suffered from dementia, he required round the clock full-time professional nursing care. He had only been a resident for 21 days when his kidneys and brain shut down...

Nursing Home and Hospital Injuries and Errors May not be Covered by Medicare and Medicaid

Posted on January 12, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may increase the number of events they refuse to reimburse nursing homes and negligent hospitals for carrying out. Currently nursing home residents who develop pressure ulcers and urinary tract infections are not able to have Medicare and Medicaid cover their treatment costs...

It is a Nursing Home's Responsibility to Prevent Most Falls

Posted on January 12, 2009
Elder abuse and neglect is widespread in today?s nursing homes and long-term care facilities. The failure to prevent falls among the elderly is one of the most common examples of negligence in nursing homes. Many of the falls that cause death or serious injury among elderly nursing home patients are, in fact, preventable...

Four accused of defrauding elderly men

Posted on January 11, 2009
A sheriff?s office has made arrests in two separate cases in which elderly men reportedly were defrauded by people who befriended him. In one case, two women threatened to file a personal injury lawsuit against an 80 year-old man if he did not give them $5,000...

Family of woman found dead at nursing home want answers

Posted on January 10, 2009
The daughters of an elderly woman found dead outside of a nursing home are demanding answers from the nursing home staff. The daughters said that the elderly woman suffered from Alzheimer?s and had wandered out of the facility only two days before. The family wonders whether the nursing home staff was negligent in not preventing the elderly woman from leaving the facility again...

Nursing Home Social Workers need to be Held to a Higher Standard

Posted on January 09, 2009
Low federal standards and inconsistent state laws have created lapses in the qualifications of nursing home social workers. Social workers are integral to nursing home resident?s quality of care, yet a national survey shows that only half of all nursing home social workers actually have a social work degree...

Patient Wins Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit

Posted on January 06, 2009
A jury determined that the death of a nursing home resident was elderly neglect and abuse. The jury awarded the family $1.25 million, concluding a four-year nursing home neglect lawsuit over the care her father received at the nursing center. The lawsuit accused the nursing home of providing inadequate attention to the elderly man...

Lawsuit claims Sexual Abuse at Nursing Home

Posted on January 05, 2009
An elderly abuse lawsuit claims that 61-year-old woman with dementia refused to eat and was prone to crying after a nursing home aide found her in the bed, naked from the waist down, while another resident was sexually abusing her. The elderly abuse lawsuit states that the director of nursing and an employee at the nursing home saw the woman half-naked with the same man next to her earlier that day...

Woman Sues Retirement Home for Negligent Care

Posted on January 03, 2009
A woman is suing a nursing home for elderly abuse, claiming that the employees dropped her 65-year-old aunt onto the floor and this caused her to be wheelchair bound for life. The niece filed the eldery negligence suit on behalf of her mentally retarded aunt...

Family Sues Nursing Home for Wrongful Death

Posted on January 02, 2009
A family filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit against a nursing home for the death of their loved one. The man was admitted to the nursing home and within 20 days had lost more than 20 pounds and became agitated and combative. The man died in the hospital of dehydration, kidney failure and pneumonia...

Carbon Monoxide found at CHA Senior Housing Building

Posted on December 29, 2008
High carbon monoxide levels were detected at a CHA senior housing building in the Lake View neighborhood of Chicago. The Mary Hartwell Cartherwood Apartments is a senior housing center operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. No one was personally injured by the toxic gas...

Nursing Home Lawsuit Leads to Constitutional Amendment Interpretation

Posted on December 24, 2008
A constitutional amendment has been interpreted in a way to prevent nursing home residents and their families from the ability to check nursing home records for medical mistakes and physician misconduct. The interpretation occurred after a nursing home death occurred when a resident of a nursing home choked to death while eating in the facility...

Former Nursing Home Aide Arrested

Posted on December 22, 2008
A former nursing home?s aide at a nursing home that is being investigated by state officials has been arrested and charged with wanton neglect. The nursing home aide was arrested and charged in connection with the alleged neglect of a former resident...

Levin Perconti files negligence lawsuit against Illinois nursing home for failing to prevent and treat pressure sores

Posted on December 22, 2008
Steven M. Levin and Margaret P. Battersby of Levin & Perconti filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against an Illinois nursing home last week. The nursing home lawsuit was filed in Cook County and brought on behalf of a 77 year-old woman. The Illinois nursing home lawsuit alleges that the nursing home failed to monitor and treat pressure sores that ultimately contributed to the 77 year-old?s death...

New nursing home ratings released

Posted on December 20, 2008
A federal government website is releasing nursing home ratings. If it is a good nursing home with no indication of nursing home abuse, the home is rated five stars. More than 25% of Illinois nursing homes received only one star. This indicates that Illinois nursing home abuse is still prevalent...

Levin Perconti File lawsuit against Lincolnwood Place Nursing Home

Posted on December 18, 2008
Attorneys Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby filed a lawsuit against an allegedly negligent nursing home. The case describes that the nursing home failed to prevent nursing home falls and the Plaintiff had sustained hip fractures and other injuries from falls at the nursing home...

Nursing Home Rating System Open to Public

Posted on December 18, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has created a new ranking system for nursing homes. The system which appoints between one and five stars to nursing homes will allow the public to review a nursing home before placing a loved one in the facility...

Choosing a Nursing Home in Illinois Made Easy-Part II

Posted on December 17, 2008
The new Medicare Nursing Home Compare Website can be used by Illinois residents to pick a nursing home that they feel comfortable and secure placing their loved one in. Several Illinois nursing homes have received poor ratings on the new Medicare sponsored website...

Choosing a Nursing Home in Illinois Made Easy-Part I

Posted on December 16, 2008
The new Medicare Nursing Home Compare Website can be used by Illinois residents to pick a nursing home that they feel comfortable and secure placing their loved one in. Several Illinois nursing homes have received poor ratings on the new Medicare sponsored website...

Elder Caregivers Need Stress Reduction Help

Posted on December 13, 2008
Elder caregivers need at times just as much support as the elder individuals they are caring for. To ensure that no elder abuse or elder neglect occurs from loved one or from independent caregiver agencies it is necessary to know and care for the wellbeing of a caregiver...

Alzheimer's Disease Common in Nursing Home Residents

Posted on December 12, 2008
Alzheimer's Disease is common in nursing home populations. Loved ones of a nursing home resident suffering from the disease need to ensure that the resident is properly cared for. Nursing home residents may be prone to wandering and elopement if they are suffering from the disease...

Nursing Home Workers Accused of Abuse

Posted on December 08, 2008
Two nursing home workers have been arrested for crimes against elderly adults which include one nurse who is accused of pouring aftershave on a patient?s genitals. The women worked as licensed practical nurses in the nursing home. One of the employees was charged with two felony counts of eldery abuse of a vulnerable adult after being indicted by a grand jury...

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