Illinois updates in category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

A police raid on an East Peoria nursing home resulted in the arrests of four residents and one staff member on outstanding warrants. The four residents, all under the age of 60, were wanted on a variety of court charges. Police also identified a number of other residents who were wanted on other charges, but were not arrested because police did not have arrest warrants.The raid came as an...

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Upset that they had not been paid in months and that paychecks were bouncing, the entire staff of certified nursing assistants walked off the job at the Contiental Care Center on Western Avenue in Chicago on Friday.Certified nursing assistants provide much of the day-to-day care at nursing homes, including the turning and repositioning which is so crucial to the prevention of pressure...

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Virginia Cole died September 10, 2006, while she was a resident at the Woodstock Residence nursing home in Woodstock, Illinois. The family of Virginia Cole believes that she died under suspicious circumstances and is having Cole's death investigated. Part of that investigation called for the body being exhumed on March 16. Prior to Cole's death she was reported as suffering from Alzheimer's...

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A North Carolina nursing home has been fined by the state after a resdient in the facility died when she was suffocated in between her mattress and the raised bed rails of her bed. The state found that the facility was improperly using the bed rails as a means of restraint. Six other residents were found to have bed rails in place which were not ordered by a physician.There are two major risks...

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A recent report is touting the use of ultrasound to detect bed sores, or pressure ulcers. Bed sores are created by unrelieved pressure on bony prominences of the body such as the heels, elbows, and sacrum. Unrelieved pressure results in tissue death which in turn leads to the skin opening which permits the entry of infecting bacteria.Bed sores are enormously painful and can ultimately lead to...

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A Peoria nursing home which housed 6 convicted sex offenders was fined by the Illinois Department of Public Health for failing to prevent and properly monitor the actions of one of them for inappropriate behaviors towards his fellow residents. The sex offender, 56 years old, had been admitted to the nursing home for treatment of conditions relating to a stroke and mental illness.The actions...

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The Illinois Department of Public Health fined a Chicago Ridge Nursing Home after a resident there was served solid foods. The resident had recently received a g-tube to provide him with nutrition and was not supposed to receive solid foods. The g-tube was placed because the resident was no longer safe to swallow solid foods.The CNA on duty provided the resident with a meal tray, even though...

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A Boston-area nursing home has been sued for neglect after untreated pressure sores led to the amputation of a resident's leg. The staff had advised the resident's family that the decline in their mother's health was due to her body shutting down as she was near death.After she was admitted to a hospital, the family discovered that their mother's decline in health was due to untreated pressure...

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One resident was killed and several residents were injured when fire swept through a North Carolina assisted living facility. Initial reports about the incident described the fire as an explosion.Besides the fatality, several residents were taken to hospitals for burns and smoke inhalation.Assisted living facilities are similar to nursing homes but are not designed to provide the same level of...

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A woman that was being cared for in a nursing home in Boston was forced to have her foot amputated after the nursing home failed to properly care for her. The woman had an infection in her foot that was caused by the nursing home's failure to attend to a large gaping wound. The wound was so big that the woman's ankle bone and ligaments were exposed.The cause of the wound is believed to be from...

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An Alabama nursing home was cited for inadequate staff training which resulted in a resident's death. The resident fell from a shower bed while being assisted by only one staff member when the bed required the assistance of two staff members.The resident suffered a broken neck as a result of the fall and died two days later. In addition to the citation for inadequate training, the facility was...

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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,...

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A Cicero nursing home was cited by the Illinois Department of Public Health after a resident was injured in a fall at the facility. IDPH found that the nursing home failed to make a proper assessment of the resident's fall risk and failed to update the care plan in light of additional falls the resident had at the facility before the one in which he was injured.The resident had to be...

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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. ...

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The director of nursing at a Pennsylvania nursing home was indicted recently for neglect in the care of a resident. Also included in the charges were accusations of falsifying and tampering with records.The resident had a head wound which was left untreated and became infested with maggots.This story is disturbing on so many levels, the most obvious being what happened to this gentlemen.The...

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