Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Mentally Ill Patients Pose Danger to Elderly Nursing Home Residents

  Kristina Labanauskas | March 24, 2009 5:40 PM | 3 CommentsCook County, IL

  There has been a significant increase in the number of mentally ill patients residing in nursing homes. And, mixing frail elderly with younger and stronger mentally ill patients in nursing homes has...

• Nursing Homes & Felons: A Dangerous Mix

  Kristina Labanauskas | November 09, 2009 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Mentally ill criminals and others on society's fringes housed in nursing homes pose a threat to other residents, especially if they are not carefully assessed, treated and monitored. In...

• Local Nursing Homes Fall Short in Government Ratings

  Kristina Labanauskas | February 10, 2009 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, families and caregivers to compare nursing homes with greater ease. Nursing homes...

• Man Dies After Nursing Home Fails to Administer Proper Care

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 05, 2007 10:16 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A Wyoming man died in December 2004 at the Casper nursing home from a mucus plug within his tracheostomy tube. Prior to Leslie Simpson's admission to the nursing home, he was seen at the Wyoming Medical Center to have a mucus plug removed. He was then transferred to Casper nursing home and specific instructions were given to the nurse to make certain his tracheostomy tube was clear.The nurses,...

• Illinois Nursing Home Death

  Jamie G. Goldstein | February 18, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A lawsuit was filed against the Granite Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Granite City, Illinois. A woman who was sent there after undergoing heart surgery died less than two months after her release from the nursing home. It is believed that the poor care she received led to infection and eventually death. The woman, only 75, had developed fluid build-up in her lungs. It is believed that...

• Unattended Patient Dies After 22 Hour Stay In Chair

  Jamie G. Goldstein | August 20, 2008 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Steven Sabock died after he was left unattended for 22 hours in a North Carolina mental institution. No one checked on Sabock who sat in a chair for the 22 hours and choked on his medication....

• CNA sentenced in rape of nursing home resident

  Barry Doyle | May 30, 2007 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A DuPage County judge today sentenced a former nursing home CNA to 25 years in prison. The sentence follows a guilty plea to sexual assault charges.The victim of the assault was a severely disabled woman who resided in the nursing home. The sexual assult was not discovered until after it was discovered that the woman was pregnant. The CNA was identified as the perpetrator through DNA...

• Nursing Homes Fined

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 13, 2006 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The Illinois Department of Public Health recently reported two nursing homes that were fined for not properly monitoring patients. The violations were both Type A violations under the Nursing Home Care Act.At Sterling Pavilion a woman died from a head injury she sustained after a fall at the nursing home. At Coventry Village a 64 year old man was rushed to a hospital after going into septic...

• Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit Filed On Behalf of Former NYC Cop

  Jamie G. Goldstein | October 26, 2006 2:44 PM | 3 CommentsChicago, IL

  The family of a former New York City police officer who died three years ago has filed a nursing home neglect lawsuit against Brooklyn's Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center.Abraham Ticknor lived at the nursing home from the time he suffered a stroke in the mid 1990s until his death in 2003.His daughter says that beginning in March 2003, the geriatric center did nothing to prevent massive bed...

• $4.1 Million Verdict Against Nursing Home

  Jamie G. Goldstein | February 26, 2007 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A jury awarded a family $4.1 million and found against a Tennessee nursing home that was caring for the patient. The lawsuit alleged that the nursing home was understaffed, which resulted in the man being improperly attended to and as a result he suffered from bedsores, an undiagnosed hip fracture and other medical problems.A proposed law in Tennessee, however, would severely limit the award. ...