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"Illinois Nursing Home Fined $20,000 for Tormenting Residents"
The state of Illinois fined a nursing home $20,000 after learning that elderly patients had been tormented by employees who used fake blood, imitated barking dogs, and failed to stop a physical fight.
The Scott County Nursing Center in central Illinois admitted to the mental abuse, which occurred over the course of about a year, starting in October of 2002. According to the state, a nurse''s aide at the home alarmed a patient by pretending to have blood covered hands after lifting the patient''s legs. The patient was frightened to tears until she learned that the red substance was ketchup. The probe found that nursing home employees barked near a woman who was scared of dogs. Employees also failed to intervene in a fight between two patients until one of the residents was bitten.
The nursing home''s administrator and nursing director, as well as two nurse''s aides and a licensed practical nurse, resigned as a result of the investigation and the home is under new administration.
"These employees do know now what abuse is, what the different types of abuse are, and how important it is," according to Christy Johnson-Jarvis, who became the nursing home''s new administrator in the wake of the investigation.
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