Strike averted at 64 nursing homes after providers grant workers 24% pay increase
Dozens of Illinois nursing home providers helped avert a strike by increasing wages by 24% and providing hazard pay for workers.
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Patients facing long Medicaid-application delays ask court to enforce temporary benefits
Attorneys for thousands of low-income people facing Medicaid application delays in Illinois went to court this week to plead for enforcement of federal time limits.
Approving TP and hand soap purchases for broke public nursing home lands official in hot water
Illinois’ troubled Champaign County Nursing Home racked up another $200,000 in debt in a single month and was down to its last eight rolls of toilet paper.
Judge allows class-action status in Illinois Medicaid delay case
Seniors in Illinois who have faced considerable delays in receiving their Medicaid coverage — including one woman who claims she went blind waiting for eye care — can sue the state, a judge ruled last week.
Illinois court upholds record $4.1 million award in nursing home stroke case
An Illinois judge has upheld a jury ruling to award $4.1 million to the family of a nursing home resident who missed her anti-clotting medication, suffered a stroke — and died four years later.
Illinois nursing homes sue state over ‘disastrous’ low Medicaid rates
Five Illinois-based nursing home groups are suing the state’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services, claiming low reimbursement rates are jeopardizing their ability to provide adequate resident care. Generations Health Care Network, Carlyle Healthcare Center, St. Vincent’s Home, Clinton Manor Living Center and Extended Care Clinical operate more than 100 facilities statewide. They filed a…
Illinois governor moves into vets’ home with history of deadly Legionnaires’ outbreaks
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) checked into a veterans home as a show of support for the facility, which has been dogged by controversy and lawsuits following the Legionnaires’-related deaths of 13 patients since 2015.
State News for July 2017
Illinois must reprioritize payments in order to make a dent in its $2 billion backlog of bills owed to Medicaid providers, including long-term care operators, a federal judge ordered in June.
Coroner opens probe in nursing home death
A coroner’s inquiry has been opened following the death of an 85-year-old resident of a southeast suburban St. Louis nursing home. The woman was reportedly discovered deceased early on March 12, strapped to a wheelchair at the bottom of a flight of stairs
Capsa Solutions acquires Kirby Lester, LLC
Medication management company Capsa Solutions has announced the acquisition of Kirby Lester, LLC, of Lake Forest, IL.
