Nursing Home Spotlight: Milestone-Elmwood East
Milestone-Elmwood East is a small, 12-bed nursing home located in Rockford, Illinois. Milestone, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation that provides “residential, developmental, vocational, and social support services for adults and children with mental retardation, autism, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy.” This facility committed serious violations that led to the choking death of one resident. (See Nursing Homes Abuse Blog: Topic – Choking) This nursing home committed several serious 4th quarter violations relating to the area of policy and procedure. (See “42 Illinois Nursing Homes Cited in 4th Quarter of 2009 for Violations Related to Patient Care”) The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) fined the...
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Alden Village North Charged With Neglect After Child Dies Due To Inadequate Nursing Care
One early morning in January 2009, a nurse at Alden Village North found a twelve-year old resident slumped in his wheelchair, unresponsive. The child’s diagnoses included Profound Mental Retardation, Hydrocephalic, History of Pulmonary Hypertension, Respiratory Distress, and Asthma. The facility reported that the child’s condition was very stable and that there were no medical incidents the day before the unfortunate death, which was caused by pulmonary, respiratory arrest. So, what happened? On the morning that the child died, the night nurse left early and the day nurse was running late, which resulted in a gap in medical coverage of...
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