The Parents and Friends of the Specialized Living Center in Swansea, Illinois was fined $20,000 for nursing home neglect after they failed to identify and address an emergency that led directly to the death of one of the residents of the facility. There are few situations that call for an immediate emergency response like a cardiac […]
Nursing Home Resident Wanders Away From Oak Park Healthcare Center
A resident of the Oak Park Healthcare Center in Oak Park, Illinois wandered away from the facility in the early morning. He was found 12 hours later and almost five miles from the nursing home where he lived. The man crossed at least one four lane road before he was found sitting on a crate […]
Nursing Home Staff Errors Lead To Fall and Tragic Death At Burgin Manor Of Olney
All of our lives are fragile, and the lives of our elderly citizens are especially so. It’s for this reason that nursing homes are required to adhere to a wide assortment of regulations regarding the care of their residents. When the rules aren’t followed, people can get hurt or killed. Everyone is going to pass […]
Nursing Home Vaccinations Rates Fall Along Racial Lines
A new study in the Journal of Medical Directors Association very plainly shows racial discrimination. The study is entitled “Racial Inequities in Receipt of Influenza Vaccination among Nursing Home Residents in the United States, 2008–2009: A Pattern of Low Overall Coverage in Facilities in Which Most Residents are Black.” The findings of the two year […]
Nursing Homes Seeking Highly Trained, Experienced Nurses Willing To Work For Next To Nothing
The answer to the question “Why are so many nursing home positions unfilled when nursing schools are graduating nurses at unprecedented rates?” seems to be that nursing homes would like to have highly specialized nurses with multiple years of experience in their fields who are willing to work for non-competitive salaries. According to McKnights Long–Term […]
Nursing Home Report Reveals More Dangers At Sheltering Oak Nursing Home
Back in July, I wrote about an incident at the Sheltering Oak Nursing Home in Island Lake, Illinois. A heat wave drying out the Midwest raised nursing home temperatures in the Sheltering Oak nursing home over 100 degrees. The nursing home had no air conditioning units and the residents were sweltering in the heat. Still, […]
Nursing Home Resident Dies After Failure To Alert Emergency Services at Lutheran Home for the Aged
A nursing home resident at the Lutheran Home for the Aged in Arlington Heights, Illinois died in a local hospital after experiencing severe hemorrhaging and vomiting at the facility. The resident was admitted to the facility from the hospital with diagnoses that included atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease, dysphagia, and post surgical aortocoronary bypass. He […]
Nursing Home Resident Killed In Violent Assault
The Ocean Promenade Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Rockaway Park, New York does, indeed, face the Atlantic Ocean, but I doubt that’s what most people will be thinking about when they hear the name of the nursing home in the future. A brutal assault that resulted in the death of one resident assures it. A […]
Nursing Home Resident Punched By Clare Oaks Staff Member
An 85-year-old nursing home resident was punched in the chest by a 29-year-old nursing assistant at the Clare Oaks Retirement Community in Bartlett, Illinois. Police said they were notified of the incident by another staff member, and that the victim did not require additional medical treatment, but there were no further details. The attacker was […]
Misuse of antipsychotic medication at West Suburban Nursing & Rehab
A resident in the West Suburban Nursing and Rehab Center in Bloomingdale, Illinois may have died as a result of complications with her medications. One of the medications she was taking was known to correlate to an increase in fatalities in dementia patients, and yet she was still taking the drug at the time of […]
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