As previously reported in Crain's Chicago Healthcare Daily, the Illinois Finance Authority approved a Lutheran Home for the Aged facility in suburban Arlington Heights' $120 million plan to gut and renovate a facility to include private bathrooms in each resident's room as part of an overall plan to "gut and renovate" its main facility. As the article suggested, this renovation project, which will decrease the number Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Lessons to be Learned from California Attorney General’s Proactive Approach
The Los Angeles Times previously reported an article from the studies of a 2+ year investigation into Southern California nursing homes ordered by the California Attorney General. Unfortunately, the study found, amongst other things that: "Inspectors discovered cases of bed sores not being treated properly, patients being given the wrong medication or being over-medicated with psychotropic drugs and residents left in Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Article Highlights Pros and Cons of Long-Term Care Insurance
As previously discussed, Governor Quinn's proposed $2.7 billion Medicaid cut has many that follow nursing home care -- both patients and facilities alike -- rightly concerned. It's certainly reasonable to worry how many of us will pay for our necessary care once we can no longer care for ourselves. With this in mind, a Chicago Tribune Article provides a good breakdown of the pros and cons of buying long-term care Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — More Details Emerge on Nursing Home Legislation’s Bad Bargain
Last year, we spent some time discussing the haggling back and forth in the Illinois General Assembly about what to do about a provision in the Nursing Home Care Act that mandated increased staffing levels for skilled nursing personnel, but held off setting the threshold levels for a later date. Last spring, there was much hand-wringing from patients' rights advocates about what's generally been referred to as Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Champaign Nursing Home Looks to Combat Budget Crunch with Dialysis Venture
As discussed, it's no secret that nursing homes and patient advocates alike are extremely nervous about the ramifications that may unfold due to Governor Quinn's proposed Medicare cuts. That's why a recent article is particularly interesting, as it details a Champaign nursing home's potential solution to raise revenue by instituting dialysis services within its facilities. As currently sits, dialysis patients at the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Some Perspective on License Revoking
We've discussed, on a few occasions, the ongoing saga of the Joliet nursing home that is in the process of losing its license to operate as a long-term care facility after numerous investigations by the Department of Public Health of allegations of patient abuse. With this in mind, revoking a license sounds like (and is) a stern remedy, and many potential clients often wonder who makes this decision? What are the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Were Patient Advocate Groups Left Out in the Cold in General Assembly Debates?
As an interesting article explains, many patients' rights advocate groups are up in arms after the General Assembly passed a measure to clarify a section of the landmark 2010 Nursing Home Care Act that now will require 10% of care in nursing homes to be provided by registered nurses (RN's). The debate that led to this measure sought to clarify portions of the 2010 Act that required increases in the amount of "nursing Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Neglect, and What it Really Means
As regular readers of this blog are well aware, much of the law comes down to pretty strict definitions and interpretations. That's why it can often be so daunting in determining whether to pursue a claim for your loved ones for incidents that occur in nursing home facilities. Illinois has a long, exhaustive law on the books regulating nursing homes, known as the Nursing Home Care Act (cited as 210 ILCS 45, et. seq.) Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law – Recent Legislation May Roll Back Nursing Home Reform
The State Journal-Register recently conducted a detailed analysis of proposed legislation that unanimously passed the Illinois House of Representatives this year that has many nursing home watchdog groups extremely nervous about the potential for nursing homes responsible for injuries and death of their residents to escape fines and/or punishment from the Department of Public Health. As it currently sits, the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Funding Issue Reaching “Tipping Point?”
We've talked quite a bit lately about the crisis nursing homes across the state are under due, in large part, to the state's hefty proposed cuts to Medicaid funding and how this has been compounded by Federal Medicare cuts. Ultimately, nursing home reform advocates are concerned that these cuts will lead to facilities reducing their workforce which, in turn, increases the likelihood of accidents and decreases the Read More
