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• Nursing Home Pharmacy to Pay $112 Million to Settle False Claims Act Cases

  The nation’s largest nursing home pharmacy, Omnicare, will pay $98 million and drug manufacturer, IVAX will pay $14 million to resolve allegations that Omnicare engaged in kickback schemes with several parties. A portion of the…

• One Nursing Home Patient Received 67 Different Drugs

  A scary result of the Omincare drug kickback case is how vulnerable elderly people in nursing homes are to schemes in which drug companies allegedly induce pharmacies to prescribe drugs they otherwise would not. One…

• Woman Sues for Nursing Home Negligence

  A woman is suing multiple healthcare companies for elderly negligence and medical malpractice. The nursing home lawsuit claims that the facility is at fault for accelerating the victim’s deterioration in health and physical condition. The…

• Illinois State Senate to Hold Hearing on Improving Nursing Home Safety

  Illinois state senators will hold a hearing in Chicago to examine different ways to improve safety at Illinois nursing homes where it appears that a high number of felons with mental illness have led to…

• Advocates for Mentally Ill Urge Overhaul of Nursing Home Operations

  Advocates for the mentally ill continued to push for a major overhaul of how Illinois’ nursing homes handle psychiatric patients. They argued that the state should end its reliance on nursing homes to house dangerous…

• Woman Uses Power of Attorney to Rip off Elderly Man

  A South Pekin, Illinois woman was arrested for allegedly bilking an elderly man out of cars, loans and his pension money. The 38-year-old woman was arrested for financial exploitation of the elderly, forgery and altering…

• Illinois Nursing Home Sued for Alleged Sex Abuse

  An Ottawa, Illinois man has sued the La Salle County Nursing Home on behalf of a female relative, who he alleges was sexually abused by a former resident at the nursing home. The man filed…

• Illinois Has Cited Half of Best Nursing Homes for use of Psychotropic Drugs

  Half of Illinois’ nursing homes with ratings of four to five stars have been cited at least once sinse 2001 for misusing psychotropic drugs. Some of these nursing home violations have involved injuries and deaths.…

• Sedated Man Dies after Fall

  Just eight hours after moving into the Pekin Living and Rehab Center, a man was approached by four employees who injected him with a high amount of the antipsychotic drug Haldol. According to state records…

• Westmont Nursing and Rehab Center Faces Allegations of Abuse

  CBS has reported that there have been allegations of nursing home neglect and unexplained injuries to residents at Westmont Nursing Home & Rehab Center. Additionally, a former nursing home worker has stated that these allegations…

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