Illinois Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing Home Abuse News in the State of
Illinois:
July 11 , 2006
"New Teams to Fight Nursing Home Rapes"
New teams of experts appointed to review nursing home rapes and deaths in Illinois will finally be formed, three years after the state legislature proposed the bill.
Nursing home abuse prevention bill was proposed in 2003, but didn’t become a law until last week due to lack of funding. The new law will be financed by money the state gets from fines levied against nursing home facilities.
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December 2, 2005
"
Nursing Home Protection Going to Expire in Illinois
"
The state of Illinois doesn't have the money to create the new positions needed to fill an independent nursing home investigation division. Laws were passed three years ago creating the division but nothing was ever done and now the division will expire on July 1 without ever existing.
The division was to be a part of the Illinois Department of Public Health created to investigate allegations of sexual assaults and wrongful deaths in nursing homes. Several other states including California, Texas, Maine, Arizona and Arkansas have similar divisions that allow the state to make independent inquiries into abuse allegations.
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November 17, 2005
"IL Releeases Troubling October Nursing Home Violations"
In just one month, the Illinois Department of Public Health has found type “A” violations in twelve of that state's nursing homes. A type “A” violation is the most serious violation a nursing home can have and results from conditions where there is a good probability that a patient would die, or suffer from some serious harm, because of the infraction.
The new statistics point to an alarming trend around the country: more and more nursing homes are becoming less safe for patients to reside at, and much more needs to be done about the situation.
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November 10, 2005
"Illinois Nursing Home Birth Ends in Arrests and Citations "
Raynaldo Brucal Jr., 18, of Schaumburg, Illinois was arrested last week and charged with four counts of criminal sexual assault in a high-profile nursing home abuse case in that state. Brucal could face a 30-year prison term.
Brucal's DNA was discovered to be matched to a baby born to one of the Alden Village Health Facility's patients, Amy Jo Hale, 23. Hale has been developmentally disabled since childhood and can't walk, talk, or even feed herself. She has been moved to a different nursing home and her mother is caring for the child.
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July
5, 2003
"Illinois nursing home abuse bill
criticized"
There is a pending law in Illinois that was proposed with the intentions
of preventing instances of nursing home abuse. Instead, critics
of the bill believe problematic Illinois nursing homes will be warned
before inspectors arrives to investigate any Illinois nursing home
abuse complaints. Many other states have not adopted this Illinois
nursing home proposal because the new law would allow state investigators
to call the nursing homes if they wanted, opposed to the current
way of investigating any nursing home abuse claims with an unannounced
visit.
Around 20% of the Illinois Department of Public
Health nursing home abuse investigations are considered a valid
complaint of the approximately 6,000 complaints made every year.
Since Illinois nursing home abuse numbers are considered greatly
underreported, the new bill would result in more instances going
unacknowledged. The industry standard for investigating claims of
nursing home abuse is for on-site, unannounced nursing home visits.
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home abuse contact us.
July
1, 2003
"Nursing home fined for nursing
home neglect"
An Illinois nursing home has been fined $50,000 for the drowning
death of a resident. The Illinois Department of Public Health fined
the facility after the nursing home resident was left unattended
in a bathroom after a bath was prepared despite requirements that
she must be supervised at all times when in the bath. Investigators
concluded the nursing home abuse neglect was more serious than the
attendant originally claimed. For more
information on Illinois nursing home abuse contact
us.
June
6, 2003
"Illinois nursing home abuse continues"
A Springfield, Illinois nursing home was fined for failing to adequately
protect residents from nursing home abuse. More specifically, the
Illinois Department of Health fined the home $20,000 because of
the sexual nursing home abuse that was occurring. The director of
nursing, whom is responsible for conducting all nursing home abuse
and neglect investigation did not perform a thorough inquiry of
the incidents and was coincidentally married to the perpetrator.
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