42 Illinois Nursing Homes Cited In 4th Quarter of 2009 For Violations Related To Patient Care
Normal 0 0 1 1324 7547 62 15 9268 11.518 0 0 0 I feel strongly about publicizing information related to poorly performing facilities. In Illinois, we are fortunate to have a department of health that does a great job documenting nursing home violations and publishing them on a quarterly basis. My hope is that families can use this information when making decisions relating to the placement of a loved in a nursing home. Below are the actual facilities cited by the IDPH this quarter-- I do think the individual violators are important-- but I think the better understanding...
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Illinois Nursing Home Task Force Holds Public Meeting Today
Today, the Illinois Nursing Home Task Force will hold its second meeting regarding patient safety. The task force will hear testimony from: patients, elder care advocates and senior service providers with the goal of re-evaluating current nursing home policies, improving coordination between state agencies and to consider nursing home alternatives for people with special needs. The task force was recently formed in response to a Chicago Tribune series of articles chronicling the safety problems in Illinois nursing homes. The series detailed how many seniors in nursing homes suffer serious injury or death from an un-regulated group of younger patients...
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New Website Provides A One-Stop-Shop For Families In Need Of Assistance Selecting A Nursing Home
I'm all for any tools that can help families make important decisions relating to nursing home care. Too often I see families walking around with huge stacks of reports on nursing homes from various websites. Not only is the the cross-referencing of websites difficult, much of the information is not current. The best site I've come across was recently unveiled by the Chicago Tribune as an accompaniment to their article regarding convicted felons who now reside in Illinois Nursing Homes. The website compiles data from various on-line and off-line sources including: the Illinois Department of Public Health, Medicare, Chicago Police...
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Blacks Receive Inferior Care At Most Nursing Homes
A very informative, and frankly disheartening, investigative article on race in Chicago Nursing Homes was recently published in The Chicago Reporter. The article's author, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, concluded that black nursing home residents received inferior care compared to their counterparts in predominately white facilities-- even when the facilities were owned by the same person. Lowenstein analyzed the care rendered to residents at Alden Nursing Home, a well known chain of Chicago facilities owned by Floyd Schlossberg. Lowenstein obviously did his homework, he analyzed data from: the Illinois Department of Public Health's website, staffing levels on the Centers for Medicare and...
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What Is It Like To Live In A 1-Starred Nursing Home?
Well, according to the investigative article by Sam Roe in yesterday's Chicago Tribune-- pretty miserable. Roe's article details Berwyn Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home in the Chicago-area, that received one-star in every major category according to the Medicare rating system. The article demonstrates that although nursing homes must meet certain criteria set by the federal government, some nursing homes are doing little more than absolutely necessary to remain eligible for federal funds. Since December, the federal government has begun posting on-line ratings on all nursing homes. Nursing homes receive a star rating in four categories on a scale of one...
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Resource For Nursing Home Residents: EveryBlock.com
If you've never heard of EveryBlock.com, you may want to check it out to find out what is going on in your city. EveryBlock is a useful compilation of public records in: Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and Washington, D.C. You can search by zip code or address to find out news and topical information that is happening in your area. A client who's mother was assaulted by a nursing home worker forwarded me this site as a reminder of just how much crime occurs in nursing homes and retirement communities. Most of...
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Chicago Nursing Homes Not Making The Grade
21 Chicago Nursing Homes have received a 'one star' rating by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The facilities were selected for this dubious honor according to objective criteria: results from annual inspections, level of staffing at the nursing home and performance of 10 key quality measures related to patient care. The poorly rated Chicago Nursing Homes also share other similarities in that they are all 'for-profit' facilities and all have been frequently named in lawsuits in Cook County, Illinois. Among the under-achievers: Alden Northmoor Rehab Alden Princeton Rehab Ambassador Nursing & Rehab Center Avenue Care Center Belhaven Nursing & Rehab Center...
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Nursing Homes In Chicago
Looking for a listing of nursing homes in Chicago? Looking for an address of a Chicago Nursing Home? Looking for a telephone number of a Chicago Nursing Home? Here is a list compiled by the City of Chicago. Check out the listing of Chicago Nursing Homes here....
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