Posts tagged nursing home

• Palos Heights home nursing fined for medication errors

  Barry Doyle | January 12, 2007 7:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A nursing home in Palos Heights was fined after a resident was given medications which were ordered for another resident. The resident, who has a documented history of confusion, answered "yes" when the nurse asked him if he the resident for whom the medications were ordered. After this, she continued to give him the other resident's medications for the rest of the shift and did not discover...

• Nursing Home Death Oak Lawn Illinois

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 09, 2007 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Neglect possibly plays a role in a recent nursing home death in Oak Law, Illinois. This is not the first incident that has arisen at the Regal Health and Rehabilitation Center.In 2004 Regal Health was fined $10,000 for its failure to report that a resident was sexually abused by a nurse's aide. That aide later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison.In this current incident an...

• Oak Lawn nursing home under investigation for neglect

  Barry Doyle | January 09, 2007 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Police and the medical examiner are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 71 year old man. The man, a resident of an Oak Lawn nursing home, died after being transferred from the nursing home to Christ Hospital.Officials stated that neglect appeared to be a factor in the man's death.I am presently representing the family of another former resident of the facility which is...

• Nursing home resident dies of exposure

  Barry Doyle | January 02, 2007 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The administrator a Pittsburgh-area nursing home faces trial on criminal charges relating to a 2001 incident in which a resident with Alzheimer's was trapped outside on an enclosed patio overnight and froze to death. Once the resident's body was discovered, staff members were ordered to bring the remains inside and efforts were made to cover up the true cause of the resident's death.The...

• Two Local Nursing Homes Appealing Citations for Alleged Neglect

  Christina Cole | December 13, 2006 7:52 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Two area nursing homes that were cited by the Illinois Department of Public Health for alleged acts of neglect are appealing the findings. The state reported, last week, that Sterling Pavilion and Coventry Village were both cited for Type A violations of the Nursing Home Care Act after instances of alleged neglect in recent months. On Friday Rhonda Reed, a spokeswoman for Sterling Pavilion,...

• Nursing Home Deaths in Illinois

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 18, 2006 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Ilinois State Police are investingating five deaths at a Woodstock nursing home.A former employee at the Woodstock Residence, 309 McHenry Ave., has spoken to state police about the investigation, according to the source.No arrests have been made and none is expected soon, because the investigation could take another few weeks, the source said.At this time the police believe that residence...

• Nursing Homes Fined

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 13, 2006 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  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...