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$28 Million Jury Verdict in Nursing Home False Claims and Whistleblower Act...
Two former employees of Momence Meadow Nursing Center, Vanessa Absher and Lynda Mitchell, asserted that Momence Meadows and its owner, Jacob Graff, consistently chose not to provide nursing home...
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$150,000 Settlement Reached for Nursing Home Resident Who Developed Bedsores...
Alice Horne was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes. She was confined to her bed at the Lexington Healthcare of Orland Park nursing home. Horne was 82 years old; the staff discovered...
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Arbitrator Awards $975,000 against Nursing Home for Failure to Implement...
Sui Mee Chiu, 85, was admitted to the Arcadia Health Center for long-term care. A member of the Arcadia staff found a Stage I pressure sore on Chiu’s lower back. A care plan was then initiated by the...
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$13.2 Million Jury Verdict in Inadequate Staffing Case at Nursing Home
Mary Dwyer was 87 years old when she was admitted to Harbor View Heath Care Center for a short-term rehabilitation after she had surgery. During the following three months, she lost 20 pounds and...
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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Cases Should Not be Confused with Medical...
As the baby boom generation ages, the population of nursing homes is also expanding. Elderly Americans and Illinois residents who reside in nursing homes are likely the most vulnerable members of this...
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Report Shows That Nursing Home Residents Are Found to be Abused in One of...
It is not new that nursing home residents are too often at risk for abuse, neglect and injury in the more than 17,000 nursing home facilities operating in the United States. Too many times these...
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$500,000 Jury Verdict Against Hospital for Failure to Prevent Bedsores to...
Salvador Palmieri was 86 when he underwent heart surgery and then experienced complications, which necessitated prolonged hospitalization in his hospital bed. A week after surgery, a nurse noticed new...
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$883,000 Jury Verdict for Failure to Prevent and Treat Pressure Sore at Hospital
William Dieser, 58, underwent surgery at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis County, Mo. Several days later, he developed a black spot on his coccyx. The black spot turned out to be a Stage IV...
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$650,000 Jury Verdict for Nursing Home’s Failure to Prevent and Treat Bed Sores
Genevieve Thompson, 74, was hospitalized and required assistance with all activities of daily living due to her long list of health problems. One of them included morbid obesity. During her...
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National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) Changes Terminology in...
On April 13, 2016, a release from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) stated that the term “pressure injury” replaces “pressure ulcer” in the NPUAP injury staging system. According to...
View ArticleElder Abuse in U.S. Increases with the Size of the Older Population
According to recent reports by the National Center on Elder Abuse — Administration of Aging (Department of Health and Human Services), America’s expanding elderly population has led to an increase in...
View ArticleIllinois Law Now Allows Cameras in Nursing Homes; Some Call Them ‘Granny Cams’
Under a law enacted in Illinois in August 2015, the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Facilities Act became effective on Jan. 1, 2016. Under its provisions, residents and their roommates...
View ArticleInjured Nursing Home Resident Refused Information About Another Resident
The Illinois Appellate Court for the First District has reversed and remanded a decision by a Cook County circuit court judge in a nursing home case involving discovery and confidentiality. In 2011,...
View ArticleIllinois Nursing Home Care Act Amended As Related To Background Checks
The Illinois Nursing Home Care Act has been amended. The new law changes the requirements of nursing home facilities when they transfer residents. The amendment allows for exceptions to the requirement...
View ArticleConfidentiality Clauses in Settlement Agreements and How to Just Say No
In an April/May CBA Record article written by attorney Dmitry N. Feofanov, the options for agreeing to confidentiality clauses in settlement agreements were explained. Too often confidentiality...
View ArticleNursing Home Resident Dies After Suffering Several Untreated Illnesses – Jury...
Sophia Alcon, 77, was admitted to Life Care Center of Pueblo, a skilled nursing facility. During the 7 months that she remained there, she suffered various injuries and illnesses, including urinary...
View Article$475,000 Settlement Reached in Nursing Home Fall and Injury Case
In a confidential settlement, a nursing home paid $475,000 to a seriously injured resident. The resident was listed and charted as being at a high risk for falling. However, several nursing assistants...
View Article$325,000 Settlement Reached in the Death of a Nursing Home Resident Caused by...
Ms. Doe, 78, suffered from blindness and mild dementia. Her nursing home care plan called for her to receive assistance from at least two people during any type of physical transfer. This would mean...
View Article$586,600 Arbitrator Award in Assisted Living Facility Injury and Death Case
Violet Moseson, a 97-year-old resident of an assisted living facility, was mandated to be checked on every morning. The facility was to perform safety checks each morning for this resident and others....
View ArticleNew Rule Bars Nursing Homes Receiving Federal Funds From Requiring...
According to a recent report in the New York Times, an agency within the federal Health and Human Services Department issued a rule that bars any nursing home that receives federal funding from...
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