More Crooks Nabbed In Chicago Nursing Home
If you've been following many of the news headlines regarding Chicago Nursing Homes, you'd likely think that these facilities are teaming with violent patients. Well, 'teaming' may be a little strong, but these facilities do seem to have an alarming number of unsavory characters who have no business living in nursing homes--- let alone sitting side-by-side with particularly vulnerable patients. To her credit, Attorney General Lisa Madigan does at least acknowledge the problem with having people with criminal records and arrest warrant living freely amongst other vulnerable nursing home patients and has initiated a crackdown on the problem by conducting...
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Elder Abuse: Violence Among Elderly Nursing Home Patients
The L.A. Times is reporting on the death of a nursing home patient that was the result of his roommate beating him with a hanger rod from a closet. The incident allegedly occurred at Palm Terrace Healthcare Center in Laguna Hills, CA. Investigators are currently investigating why William McDougall (pictured) fatally beat his 94-year-old roommate Manh Ban Nuyen. Sadly, violence amongst nursing home patients is more common than we would like to think. While some violence occurs without any advance warning, many violent acts are the result of ongoing problems at the facility. While I have no insight into the...
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Nursing Home Spotlight: Kenwood Healthcare Center, Chicago, IL
A recently completed nursing home survey completed at Kenwood Care Center in Chicago, IL provides a very disturbing glimpse into life at a facility that cares for a group of predominately mentally-ill patients. One hundred forty-five of the 232 patients at Kenwood had a psychiatric diagnosis and similarly 122 of the facilities patients were receiving rehabilitative services for mental illness and mental retardation. The extensive survey was completed at the facility over several days in January, 2010 resulted in numerous deficiencies and violations of state and federal law. In addition to the noted violations, the IDPH issued a type- A...
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Teenage Nursing Home Visitor Suspected Of Raping Patient
Protecting nursing home patients seems like an obvious responsibility of nursing homes, yet too often facilities are lax when it comes to regulating the visitors who come-and-go freely at many facilities. Of course its nice to simply see new faces at the facility-- but there needs to be some method of accounting for who enters and leaves the facility. On the topic of nursing home visitors, I was sickened by a news report of and 18-year-old man who allegedly raped an elderly female patient at Woods Nursing Home in Tennessee. Apparently, the man was at the facility to visit another...
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Feds Yank Funding From Another Chicago Nursing Home With A Troubled Past
Less than a week after federal and state funding was pulled from Somerset Place, officials have moved westward to the Fox River Pavilion in their crackdown of poor nursing home care in the Chicagoland area. Fox River Pavilion has received much scrutiny lately after reports of violence at the facility. On December 17th, a patient at the Aurora, IL nursing home was killed in a fight with another patient. Under-staffing was a primary reason why officials chose to pull funding from this facility. A patient at Fox River told authorities, "Like today, you see there is really no staff around. There...
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Mentally Disabled Patients Composing A Larger Portion Of Nursing Homes Population. Is Your Loved One At Risk?
Nursing home facilities often house young and middle-aged residents suffering from mental illness (including schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder) with older nursing home residents. In some cases, this has led to violence against already frail elderly residents. Younger mentally ill people now make up more than 9% of the nation’s almost 1.4 million nursing home residents. Last year, there were almost 125,000 young and middle-aged adults with serious mental illnesses living in nursing homes in the United States. This was a 41% increase from 2002, when only 89,000 mentally ill people ages 22 to 64 lived in nursing homes. ...
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Drugs, Criminals & Violence. Welcome To The 'Psychiatric Ghetto' Nursing Home
Blog reader Rebbecca Young recently commented on a recent post, Do Former Inmates Deserve To Be Living In Nursing Homes? "Deserve? So... what, once they've served their sentence and justice has been done they shouldn't have the same range of choices available to them as to any other citizen? Is being institutionalized supposed to be a privilege now? How about appropriate care in the least restrictive environment? We are after all talking about people who have done their time - prison inmates with ongoing care needs receive that care behind bars. You make a bad decision (or many), you get caught,...
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Woman Beaten At Chicago Nursing Home With Troubled Past
As reported by WBBM 780 Radio, a female patient was punched by another male patient at South Shore Nursing & Rehab on Sunday evening. Staff at the Chicago nursing home called police after the man allegedly attacked the woman from behind and began punching her in the face. The woman was treated at nearby Mt. Sinai Hospital for bruising and swelling around her eye. Although the woman was released from Mt. Sinai, it is unknown if she returned to South Shore. Read more about this violence at a Chicago nursing home here. About South Shore Nursing & Rehab South Shore...
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Nurse Charged With Rape Of Disabled Patient
After a six-month investigation by a New York grand jury, a licensed practical nurse (LPN) is now facing formal criminal charges of: second degree rape and endangering the welfare of an incompetent or disabled person. This story first came to light when a complaint was reported to the New York State Department of Health that Kipper Allen Stevens had sexual relations with a disabled female patient at Shore Winds Nursing Home. Shore Winds suspended Stevens during the health department investigation. Stevens will be in Monroe County Court on July 21. No word yet on how Stevens will plead to...
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Atleast 50 Convicted Sex-Offenders Living Freely In Illinois Nursing Homes
One of the most disturbing cases, my office is working on, involves a mentally and physically impaired woman who was raped by another resident at a skilled nursing facility. As if the crime itself wasn't horrific enough, a review of the records has revealed that the other residents had complained about the individuals making sexual advances towards them-- yet the facility failed to take any actions. Lastly, the individual was a convicted sex offender, living freely and completely unknown to the other residents. Wes Bledsoe's group, A Perfect Cause, is committed to protecting nursing home residents by protecting patients from...
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