Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Registered sex offender groped mentally impaired woman in nursing home, government report states -- chicagotribune.com

Registered sex offender groped mentally impaired woman in nursing home, government report states -- chicagotribune.com: "Contrary to a nursing home's assurance that a registered sex offender presented no recent problems, a newly obtained government report and interviews show that the man allegedly groped a mentally impaired woman at the facility last month.

The Asta Care Center of Toluca in central Illinois failed to fully investigate the incident, implement an appropriate care plan for the sexual predator, Frank Aoskad, or properly monitor him to protect others, according to a Department of Public Health report obtained by the Tribune Friday.

The Facility acknowledged that administrators erred in not interviewing Aoskad or the female about the alleged sexual abuse, as required. But they disputed the state's claim that the nursing home did not monitor Aoskad or have a proper care plan for him.

A Tribune article Friday chronicled allegations of sexual abuse against Aoskad, 80, as part of a wider examination of Illinois nursing homes' failures to notify local law enforcement that they housed convicted sex offenders, as required by law, or to implement plans to isolate, monitor and treat the offenders inside the facilities.

Aoskad is alleged to have molested female residents in two prior incidents at the Asta Toluca home and a sister facility in Bloomington, according to state investigators."

10 Ky. nursing homes among worst in country - Latest News - Kentucky.com

10 Ky. nursing homes among worst in country - Latest News - Kentucky.com: "Ten nursing homes in Kentucky, including one in Lexington, are among the most poorly performing in the United States, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
And, according to the GAO, which provides oversight of federal agencies for Congress, the nursing home receiving the worst scores in Kentucky was also the second most poorly performing nursing home in the United States. The report did not say which of the 10 named in Kentucky was the worst, and GAO official John Dicken said he could not provide the name.
Only 15 states had more poorly performing nursing homes than Kentucky, according to the report."

New York Injury News- Drugged: Illinois nursing home residents victimized - Injury News

New York Injury News- Drugged: Illinois nursing home residents victimized - Injury News: "Legal news for Illinois nursing home abuse attorneys. Nursing home residents throughout Illinois have been given dangerous drugs without cause.
Illinois nursing homes exposed for giving residents psychotropic drug treatment without cause or consent.
Chicago, IL—An in-depth investigative report compiled by the Chicago Tribune, exposed the ugly truth behind the treatment of the fail and vulnerable elderly nursing homes residents throughout the state of Illinois. The explosive report sheds light on the dark practices of Illinois nursing home caregivers who administer powerful and dangerous psychotropic drugs, which have led to debilitating injuries and even death among some of our most vulnerable residents."

State police sweeps removing sex offenders and ex-convicts from nursing homes were halted in 2006 -- chicagotribune.com

State police sweeps removing sex offenders and ex-convicts from nursing homes were halted in 2006 -- chicagotribune.com: "Amid reports that elderly and disabled residents were being assaulted and raped in nursing facilities, a state police unit in 2001 began raiding the homes to haul out unregistered sex offenders and ex-convicts with outstanding arrest warrants for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder.

Elderly residents lined the corridors to applaud as Illinois State Police marched young thugs and sex offenders out of the nursing homes.

'Everybody was cheering,' former state police Sgt. Rick Klimes recalled.

'We would walk these felons out and the older people would be so glad that we were getting rid of them.'

From January 2005 through June 2006, when 20 northern Illinois nursing homes were swept and roughly 80 fugitives and sex offenders removed, state police in that area recorded a nearly 67 percent decrease in nursing home abuse and neglect complaints, according to a department citation issued to the sweeps unit."