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 [...]
Eight seniors tragically died in a Florida nursing home in the wake of Hurricane Irma, which had purportedly knocked out the facility’s air conditioning. While the matter is still being [...]
Thirty-one senators have sent a letter to Seema Varma, the Trump administration’s newly appointed Administrator of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]
A Wicker Park nursing home recently settled a case involving a resident’s choking death, one that allegedly occurred because medical staff failed to follow doctor’s orders or provide adequate [...]
A Villa Park woman died in a Highland Park nursing home because of what her family and their attorneys alleged was a misread medical chart. A lawsuit was recently filed. Kim Cencula, 52, was [...]
On September 28, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a new ruling that would prevent nursing homes that receive federal funding [...]
