The Arlington Rehab and Living Center in Long Grove, IL has been fined $1,100 for their failure to follow their own Fall Care Plan intervention for a resident who had suffered a prior fall and fell again. The resident was admitted to the facility after a nasty fall led to some severe lacerations that required […]

A resident at Pinckneyville Health Care Center in Pinckneyville, Illinois died after suffering numerous nursing home falls at the facility. The final, fatal fall was unwitnessed despite the resident being placed at the nurses’ station for easy observation. Staff at Pinckneyville Health Care stated that the wheelchair alarm and padded lap cushion that the resident […]

It was only a few months ago that I wrote about an incident at LeRoy Manor in Le Roy, Illinois. It seems that the investigation by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) was not sufficient to convince LeRoy Manor staff and administration to improve their quality of care. The prior incident involved a woman […]

Two broken ankles resulted in multiple fractures for two residents of the Clark-Lindsey nursing home in Urbana, Illinois. In both cases, the nursing home falls could have been easily avoided through the use of simple assistive devices that were standard procedure. The first resident had diagnosis of epilepsy and osteoporosis. Epilepsy is a condition that […]

In February of this year, a nursing home inspector for the state of Illinois was visiting the Rolling Hills Manor nursing home in Zion, Illinois when one of the residents made a surprising statement. She said that she broke her clavicle (shoulder blade), but she didn’t remember how it happened. A subsequent inquiry by the […]