Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Home Healthcare Industry Screening Process Highlights Gap In Nursing Home Screening

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As we’ve discussed several times recently, the problem with training nursing home caregivers and keeping up with proper staffing requirements has been one of the most prominent topics in the ongoing debate about the care and services your loved ones receive in nursing homes. These topics come to mind when reading a recentpress release from a…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Champaign Nursing Home Looks to Combat Budget Crunch with Dialysis Venture

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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.…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Some Perspective on License Revoking

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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)…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — Illinois Nursing Home Staff Protests Own Facility for Treatment of Residents

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One of the most common themes in nursing home abuse and neglect cases, as we’ve discussed, is the tragedies that unfold — most of which are preventable — when nursing homes are understaffed and the staff is undertrained or provided with inadequate resources. Most (if not all) of the time, these decisions as to how…

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?

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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…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — Federal Government Stepping Up Efforts to Reduce Antipsychotic Drug Administration in Nursing Homes

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A recent article explained that the federal government is stepping up efforts to regulate the administration of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes across America. In conjunction, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has also announced a goal of reducing the overall use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes by 15% by the end…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Are Nursing Home Organization Experts the Wave of the Future?

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As the old adage goes, if you want to catch a bigger mouse, you need to build a bigger mouse trap. This, it seems, applies just as equally to the law as any other context — and nursing home-related lawsuits are a prime example. Suing a nursing home is a complicated ordeal, no matter how…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Texas Nursing Home Cited After Video of Suspected Abuse Goes Viral

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A local Fox network affiliate in Arlington, Texas has recently “gone viral” with the results of their investigation into suspected nursing home abuse and neglect. All should be forewarned, however, that the story contains a link with a video segment from the investigative report that features video clips of the alleged abuse and neglect caught…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — Budgetary Concerns Affecting Nursing Home Safety?

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It’s no secret that Illinois is one of the many states that is staring down a rather sizeable budget deficit. Also, as many are aware, “entitlement reform” — issues looking at the manner in which programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are funded — has become a hot-button issue playing a prominent role…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — Looking Beyond the Numbers

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Unfortunately, negligent acts and poor care while at nursing homes happens at both “good” and “bad” homes alike, and quite often, perception based upon reputation alone clouds reality. Every nursing home eligible to be paid by Medicare (which is to say, almost all of them) is subject to a federally-issued ranking system based on one…