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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse: Improperly Prescribing Antipsychotic Drugs for Dementia

The population of the United States is rapidly aging, with older people now accounting for one in seven Americans, or nearly 50...

Trump Administration Scales Back Medicare’s Nursing Home Fines

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been rolling out new guidelines discouraging Medicare...

State of Illinois Sued Over Fatal Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Veterans’ Home

Eleven lawsuits have been filed against the State of Illinois over a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in a western Illinois veterans’...

Lawsuit Highlights Nursing Home Falls as Evidence of Neglect

The widow of a 75-year-old Orland Park man who died following at least 28 separate nursing home falls has filed a wrongful...

Eight Dead After Irma Knocks Out Nursing Home Air Conditioning

Eight seniors tragically died in a Florida nursing home in the wake of Hurricane Irma, which had purportedly knocked out the facility’s...

Senators Urge Trump Administration Not to Roll Back Nursing Home Arbitration Rules

Thirty-one senators have sent a letter to Seema Varma, the Trump administration’s newly appointed Administrator of the Department of Health and Human...

Wicker Park Nursing Home Choking Death Case Settled for $875k

A Wicker Park nursing home recently settled a case involving a resident’s choking death, one that allegedly occurred because medical staff failed...

Woman Dies in Nursing Home Because of Allegedly Misread Chart

A Villa Park woman died in a Highland Park nursing home because of what her family and their attorneys alleged was a...

Government Bans Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Contracts

On September 28, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a new ruling that...