Helping you protect your loved ones from nursing home and long-term care facility abuse & neglect
Saturday, January 12th, 2008. Bloomington, IL - Heritage Enterprises is dismissing a $17,000 judgment against it, ordered by a McLean County judge as a result of a lawsuit from a former employee -- a whistleblower who claimed she was fired in retaliation for reporting her suspicions an employee was sexually abusing a patient at ... [More >>]
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007. Washington, DC - Barack Obama (D-IL) today called on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt to release the list of the 128 “special focus facilities,” the list of worst performing nursing homes in the country. Recent press accounts have reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ... [More >>]
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007. Chicago, IL - A lawsuit has been filed against Manor Care of Oak Lawn about neglect and abuse that resulted in death. The family of Helen Edwards, a resident at Manor Care, 9401 S. Kostner Ave., from Oct. 5 to Nov. 26, 2005, has filed a lawsuit against the nursing ... [More >>]
Friday, September 14th, 2007. Springfield, IL - The state has fined a Springfield nursing home $20,000 in connection with a diabetic patient receiving an accidental overdose of insulin that put his blood sugar at dangerously low levels. The Lewis Memorial Christian Village patient, whose identity wasn’t disclosed, was hospitalized in intensive care for two days ... [More >>]
Thursday, September 13th, 2007. Springfield, IL - Three Southern Illinois nursing homes were cited with violating the state’s Nursing Home Care Act in March, according to an Illinois Department of Public Health report released Wednesday. Sixteen nursing homes, including Finnie Good Shepherd Nursing Home, 400 S. Main Cross Street in Galatia; Friendship Manor Healthcare, 485 ... [More >>]
Monday, September 3rd, 2007. Chicago, IL - A Libertyville nursing home allowed numerous unauthorized and unsupervised visits to an elderly woman by a man who sexually abused her, a lawsuit filed Wednesday claims. The suit, filed in Lake County Circuit Court, claims Winchester House, a county nursing facility in Libertyville, ignored industry standards and "was ... [More >>]
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007. Girard, IL - The state has fined a central Illinois nursing home $25,000 over allegations that workers abused and taunted residents. The Illinois Department of Public Health says two nurse's aides at Pleasant Hill Village in Girard committed the abuse. Both aides have been fired. Girard police Sergeant Harold Gist says ... [More >>]
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007. Girard, IL - Nurse’s aides, described as bullies in a state investigator’s report, allegedly spent months tormenting nursing-home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other mental impairments. The incidents at Pleasant Hill Village, described in a Feb. 21 report by investigators from the Illinois Department of Public Health, have resulted in a ... [More >>]
Monday, August 13th, 2007. Mattoon, IL - A Central Illinois nursing home is making changes after serious accusations of patient abuse. The state says it happened in February at the Odd Fellow Rebekah Home in Mattoon. The nursing home has been fined $30,000 because of the incident. A nurse is accused of actually holding ... [More >>]
Friday, July 20th, 2007. Ottawa, IL - An Ottawa care facility has been fined $10,000 and is included in a state report on serious violations. The Illinois Department of Public Health has issued a type "A" violation for Kanthak House, a 16-bed intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled at 724 Second Ave. Type ... [More >>]
