Illinois To Receive Big Bucks To Improve Nursing Home Safety. Will It Help?
Many Illinois Nursing Homes may soon be stepping upon some new wealth under a recently devised tax-plan that that is intended to provide for an increase in the number of state nursing home surveyors and increased staff at troubled facilities. By taking advantage of a Federal Government matching-fund program, the program is expected to provide $145 million in new funding for nursing homes in Illinois. According to a report on the program in The Republic, Illinois officials have allocated $20 million for purposes of hiring 160 new nursing home surveyors and the balance of the funds will be put towards...
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Nursing Home Abuse: Facility Allows Patient To Cry In Pain At Fractured Leg Goes Ignored--- For 24 Days!
I'm not sure if it derives out of shame, fear or just plain laziness--- but I regularly see situations where a patients complaints of pain following an obvious injury, go ignored by the facility. A recent horrific example of ignored patient complaints came from our peaceful neighbors to the North. Thestar.com reported on the case of a woman at a Canadian nursing home, that went 24 days without so much as an x-ray of her leg after she fell from her wheelchair and screamed in pain. Finally, after 24 days of pleas from the patient's daughter and...
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Some Nursing Homes Seem To Have A 'Wait And See' Approach When It Comes To Getting Medical Treatment For Their Injured Patients
A news story regarding a 12-hour delay in obtaining medical treatment for an injured patient caught my attention-- not necessarily due to the horrible injuries the patient sustained-- but due to the staffs' sluggish response to the injured patient with two broken legs and a fractured shoulder. The 76-year-old patient fell and sustained her injuries while workers at Ridgeland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center were changing her bed at approximately 5 a.m. A call for emergency assistance was not placed until 4:42 p.m.-- 12 hours later. In situations like this, it obviously represents a complete failure in the system intended to...
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