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Some Nursing Home Residents Don’t Need Antipsychotic Drugs
New Rule May Help Justify Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Homes For some nursing home residents battling psychosis and severe mental disorders conditions such as schizophrenia, antipsychotic drugs...
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Common Medications Stolen At Nursing Homes
Doctors, nurses, and other nursing home staff are more often being caught and charged with prescription medication theft and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. The most appealing of all...
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Investigations of Chronic Nursing Home Problems
New Investigation Shows Continual Lax in Oversight of U.S. Nursing Homes State-licensed elder facilities in Illinois may include assisted living facilities, residential or personal care homes. Each is...
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Nursing Home Visitor Update | Coronavirus In Illinois
CMS Says U.S. Nursing Homes Should No Longer Allow ‘Most’ Visitors Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma joined President Trump’s news conference on coronavirus...
View ArticleFiling a Complaint Against an Illinois Nursing Home
How to Prepare Your Nursing Home Complaint and Who to Contact The Illinois Department of Public Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
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Antipsychotic Drugs Add Injury Risk to Nursing Home Residents
Drug Overuse Is Prevalent in Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer’s Antipsychotic drugs are sometimes given to patients living in long-term care facilities to calm behaviors associated with...
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Illinois Nursing Homes Should Be Ready For COVID-19 Vaccine
Chicago’s Long-Term Care Residents and Healthcare Workers in Line To Receive First Round of COVID-19 Vaccines An emergency meeting led by the immunization advisory panel for the Centers for Disease...
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Nursing Home Falls Are No. 1 Cause of Resident Brain Injuries
Fall-Related Brain Injuries Go Unnoticed Too Often in Nursing Home Residents March is Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month. Those who have suffered from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) acquired their...
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