Health officials have issued a warning about a drug-resistant, potentially deadly fungus infection that has sickened at least 158 Illinois residents, many of whom are patients at nursing homes [...]
Health officials have found two new clusters of Legionnaires’ disease in Illinois, the first linked to a Walmart in Johnsburg and the second affecting residents at a nursing home in Chicago’s [...]
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has announced that her office will be launching a criminal investigation into whether the Rauner administration improperly handled the Legionnaires’ disease [...]
Nursing home sepsis – a potentially life-threatening bloodstream infection that is a frequent complication of bedsores and a common sign of abuse – is prevalent in Illinois, according to a [...]
Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed a bill that would have raised the caps on negligence awards paid out by the state through the Court of Claims system. The legislation – which would have raised the [...]
The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported a new case of Legionnaires’ disease in the state. This recent case joins two more infections identified in the past month at the Illinois [...]
The population of the United States is rapidly aging, with older people now accounting for one in seven Americans, or nearly 50 million. Moreover, the number of older Americans is predicted to [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been rolling out new guidelines discouraging Medicare from levying fines against nursing homes [...]
Eleven lawsuits have been filed against the State of Illinois over a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in a western Illinois veterans’ home. Three outbreaks have occurred in the facility [...]
The widow of a 75-year-old Orland Park man who died following at least 28 separate nursing home falls has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Joliet long-term care facility. While litigation [...]
