The Illinois Department of Health is currently investigating a complaint that was filed against the employee at an Illinois nursing home.

Many details of the case were not released because the investigation is still underway, but it is known that the complaint is against certified nursing assistant over committing some type of sexual abuse against a nursing home resident.

There have been past issues reported at this nursing home involving molestation incidents and questionable financial decisions.

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New legislation has been passed by General Assembly and signed into a new law by the Governor to help improve the care at nursing homes and rid them of abuse and negligence cases.

The new law states that their will be increased background checks of residents who are coming to stay at the homes and new staffing levels have been mandated at the homes as well. These new measures have already been used at many nursing homes in order for the quality of care to increase as quickly as possible.

New workers will be brought in to make sure that residents are receiving face-to-face care. Staff are now suppose to always be watchful for the happiness of the residents in the home as well as their physical care. These new steps are not extremely drastic but officials hope that they will help to reduce injury and illness in residents due to negligence.

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A nursing home in Illinois is being investigated by officials after claims of negligent care when a resident was injured while a nurse was moving her.

As a rule at the nursing home, which is made clear by signs posted throughout the facility, two nurses must be available to move a resident. Therefore, no one is injured during the move. In this incident, a nurse moved the resident by herself and the resident was hurt.

The laceration caused needed 24 stitches. The Illinois Department of Public Health is currently investigating this accident. Earlier this year, the department fined the nursing home almost $100,000 for breaking health violations.

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A nursing home in Champaign County is being investigated after a patient fall that later resulted in her death. The findings of the investigation have resulted in $50,000 in fines against the nursing home and loss of Medicaid and Medicare funding.

The nursing home is contesting the current findings. According to officials at the nursing him, the elderly women who fell was in poor health when she arrived at the nursing home and in a note from the Illinois Department of Public Health, they did not blame the home for her death.

Since the public health findings, the nursing home has implemented some changes. For example, when caregivers are being trained their will be special attention placed upon how to report falls.

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Authorities have investigated 86 nursing home sexual abuse against elderly or disabled patients. An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that only one of these cases has resulted in arrest.

In a quarter of Chicago’s 119 nursing homes, sexual assault or rape was reported. A majority of the 86 cases it was residents attacking other residents. State law requires that sexual violence be reported by nursing homes immediately. In at least nine sexual attacks, police were not notified, according to police records.

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