Task force chief sets timetable for key proposals to end violence
The final report of Gov. Pat Quinn’s Nursing Home Safety Task Force, issued early Friday morning, for the first time sets out an urgent timetable and concrete road map for a sweeping overhaul of the state’s troubled long-term care system.
The proposals are aimed at reversing [...]
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Nursing home safety reforms get deadline
February 26, 2010
Family Sues Philadelphia Nursing Home Over Father’s Death from Exposure
February 12, 2010
We’ve seen the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review investigation of state-run veterans’ nursing homes. As part of that investigation, the newspaper profiled a nursing home neglect lawsuit filed by a family here in the Philadelphia area. The daughters of Harold Chapman sued the Delaware Valley Nursing Home after the 75-year-old dementia patient died of exposure in December of [...]
Illinois Revokes Nursing Home’s License
February 9, 2010
A Chicago Tribune investigative report has been succesful in exposing a lack of compliance to Illinois laws for admitting and caring for nursing home residents. Criminal background checks and risk assessments were not being conducted on new residents, allowing for mentally ill patients and convicted felons to become rent-free residents of Medicaid nursing homes and [...]
3 lose nursing-home jobs after nude photos alleged
February 9, 2010
BREMERTON — Three employees of Kitsap Health & Rehabilitation Center have been fired amid allegations that they took nude cellphone pictures of residents. The state Department of Social and Health Services is investigating.
Nursing-home administrators reported the alleged abuse to the Bremerton Police Department on Jan. 27. Staff members said in written statements that the suspects [...]
Uptown nursing home fights shutdown
February 5, 2010
Facing an imminent shutdown by federal health-care authorities, the troubled Somerset Place nursing home in Uptown filed a civil lawsuit Thursday to stop the government from administratively shutting it down this weekend.
Somerset officials were not immediately available for comment Friday morning. A hearing was scheduled for 11 a.m. before U.S. District Judge M. Dow Jr. [...]
Eight Fugitives Arrested at Chicago Nursing Homes
January 27, 2010
CHICAGO – Authorities found 20 suspects of violent crimes at two nursing homes Tuesday.
The raids were carried out by federal marshals, Chicago police, Cook County [...]
Albert Lea nursing home, ex-employees sued over alleged abuse
January 27, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS — An Albert Lea nursing home and four former aides were sued Tuesday over allegations that some residents were abused.
Two former aides, Brianna Broitzman and Ashton Larson, both 20, were criminally charged with several counts about a year ago. They’re accused of groping, spanking and spitting on several residents at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Albert Lea. [...]
Nursing Home Sex Abuse Leads to Arrest
January 6, 2010
Nursing home abuse is one of the least reported crimes today. Often times, these incidents of abuse — be it verbal, physical or sexual — go unreported or underreported. Residents or families of residents, sometimes do not report it because they have no choice but to keep their loved one in the care facility and [...]
$23.3 Million
A Lake County jury awarded the parents of a brain injured child $23.3 million due to the negligence of the hospital employees responsible for monitoring his fetal heart rate prior to birth.
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