Nursing Home Safety Bill Provides Promise Of Improved Care In Illinois
Last week, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill that promises to improve care of nursing home patients throughout the state. Though many of the details need to be hammered out, the new legislation will hopefully eradicate many of the recurring problems patients face such as: violence, recurring episodes of neglect and inconsistent care. Among the highlights of the new nursing home legislation include: Hiring new nursing home inspectors in an effort to reach a ratio of one inspector per every 500 patient beds Increased criminal background checks and psychological screenings of nursing home patients Creation of alternative housing arrangements...
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Wait A While & Bad Nurses May Just Migrate To Your State To Care For Your Loved One
Loopholes in a reciprocity program amongst 24 states that allows nurses from one state to transfer to another may be putting a tremendous number of nursing home and hospital patients at risk for receiving poor care-- or perhaps more accurately downright dangerous care. A recent USA Today article "Bad nurses able to keep working in other states" highlights the problems associated with the lack of a national database to keep track of nurses with blemishes on their records. The article chronicles how some nurses legally obtain work in one state when they may have been disciplined for poor care in...
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Should Criminal Background Checks Be Required At All Nursing Homes?
Today, the Village of North Aurora, IL will consider mandatory fingerprinting for criminal background checks for all residents of the North Aurora Care Center as well as other changes at the facility. Originally constructed in 1971 for the 'care of old age", today the facility provides both daily living assistance and medical care for 103 patients. In 2006, almost half of the facilities residents had a primary diagnosis of mental illness and 60% of the residents were younger than 60. In addition to conducting criminal background searches of residents, the proposal under consideration would also have the facility install alarmed...
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