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Chicago Nursing Home Attorney Steven Levin Commends Nursing Home Safety
Chicago nursing home attorney Steven Levin wrote to the Chicago Tribune to praise them for their commitment to uncovering nursing home abuse. Attorney Levin thought that “Nursing homes’ toll: 86 sex cases, 1 arrest” was a valuable tool for the...

Chicago’s Somerset Place is Fighting Shutdown
Chicago’s Somerset Place nursing home has filed a civil lawsuit to stop the government from administratively shutting it down. State and federal authorities were threatening to close Somerset Place until it remedies the serious safety breaches they found upon inspection....

Golden Moments Senior Care Fined $50,000
State officials have fined the Golden Moments Senior Care Center in Jacksonville, Illinois $50,000. The nursing home was fined for poor care that has been connected with the wrongful death of a 74-year-old resident who choked on food. The elderly...

1 in 5 Nursing Homes Get Low Stars
The USA Today has released a report stating that one in five of the country’s 15,700 nursing homes were found on the lower end of the five-star scale. It seems that almost all of the nursing home receiving one or...

Nursing Home Closes After Feces Failing on the Floor
A nursing home has been closed after inspectors found disgusting conditions. The health inspection showed that the facility had a number of problems with nursing home negligence. One of the residents’ family members believed that her son’s bed looked pretty...

FDA Says to Decrease Antipsychotic Drugs in Elderly Patients
A new study has found that newly admitted nursing home patients are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics if the nursing home has a high prescribing rate for antipsychotics. The FDA has recently advised that nursing homes should decrease their...

 
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