At their most basic level, fines imposed against nursing homes for negligent care of patients serve to both punish facilities for situations that may have developed in the past and to serve as a way of prodding facilities to improve the care they dispense— or else they will face similar sanctions again if the problems… Continue Reading
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What good are nursing home fines when they’re not enforced?
Posted in EconomicsIt seems like we hear about nursing homes getting fined for safety problems or patient injuries on a daily basis. After learning of the underlying reasons why the fine was imposed, many of us sit back and sigh thinking to ourselves “serves them right.” At some point there is an assumption that the fine will… Continue Reading
Shouldn’t Nursing Home Fines Be Reflective Of The Type Of Violation Committed?
Posted in Dropped Patients, Medication ErrorsAs the name would suggest, nursing home fines are one of the tools available to state and federal agencies to get them to correct their practices. After all, a substantial fine would (or at least should) cause nursing homes to carefully reevaluate how they care for patients in order to avoid similar fines in the… Continue Reading
Significant Drop In Number Illinois Nursing Homes Cited For Violations. Is Care Really Getting Better?
Posted in Illinois Nursing HomesFor the past several years, I’ve always highlight some of the Illinois nursing homes represented on the listing of Quarterly violators published by the Illinois Department of Health. While it may be logistically impossible to investigate every incident involving a nursing home injury, I look at the list of quarterly violations as a snippet of… Continue Reading
State Fines Nursing Home Where Patients Drowns In Puddle In Front Of Facility
Posted in Dementia / Alzheimer's Patients, Elopement & WanderingWandering in a potentially deadly problem for nursing home patients with dementia and other medical conditions that make them unable to appreciate the dangers around them. While not a common problem, wandering from nursing homes puts particularly vulnerable patients at risk for harming themselves when they find themselves in the outside world with no one… Continue Reading
Illinois Nursing Homes Continue To Rack Up Fines In 3rd Quarter Of 2010
Posted in Alden Nursing Homes, Illinois Nursing HomesAs is becoming somewhat of a regular feature at the Nursing Homes Abuse Blog, I like to take a bit of a closer look at the facilities appearing on the Quarterly list of nursing home violators as published by the Illinois Department of Health. More than anything, when you look at the list on the… Continue Reading
Traffic Accident Fatality Costs Iowa Nursing Home $10,000 In Fines
Posted in Medical Transportation & Ambulance AccidentsAn Iowa nursing home now faces a $10,000 fine imposed by the state following an investigation into the death of an elderly patient at the facility. As we recently discussed, Corine Armentrout and another elderly patient were injured in a November 9th auto accident when the nursing home van in which they were passengers stopped… Continue Reading
Illinois Health Officials To Have More Leverage When It Comes To Punishing Bad Nursing Homes
Posted in Illinois Nursing HomesFaced a situation where a nursing home was providing inadequate or dangerous care to its patients, officials at the Department of Public Health– the regulatory agency for Illinois Nursing Homes– had relatively little in their arsenal when it comes to prodding along facilities. That is, until now. Recently, the Illinois Appellate Court tossed out a… Continue Reading
42 Illinois Nursing Homes Cited In 4th Quarter of 2009 For Violations Related To Patient Care
Posted in Illinois Nursing HomesNormal 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… Continue Reading
Judge Limits Fines For Poor Nursing Home Care
Posted in Illinois Nursing HomesAn Illinois Court has ruled the Illinois Department of Public Health can impose maximum fines of $10,000 per incident for poor care–and not a penny more. The decision stems from a case involving infection-related death of a 95-year-old resident at Rosewood Care Center of Peoria. Following an investigation into the death, IDPH imposed a $25,000… Continue Reading
New Bill Would Return Money To Dangerous Nursing Homes After They Correct Problems
Posted in Illinois Nursing Homes, Legislation For Nursing HomesA new bill in the Illinois General Assembly could dramatically change the way nursing homes operate in Illinois. Under Senate Bill 321, proposed by Dan Kotowski (D- Park Ridge, IL), fines imposed against nursing homes for providing poor care and injury could be returned to the facility at the discretion of the Illinois Department of… Continue Reading