Woodstock Residence Fined $360,000 for Poor Care

The Chicago Tribune’s Carolyn Starks and Jeff Long plowed new ground on the Woodstock Residence yesterday.

The two reporters covering McHenry County discovered that the Illinois Department of Public Health has fined the nursing home $360,000

“The Department of Public Health said the most serious violations involved the use of “chemical restraints”—drugs used to sedate patients. State law prohibits using drugs to discipline nursing home residents or as a staff convenience,” the article said.

The story also reprised McHenry County Blog’s discovery by Pete Gonigam that unnamed employees had told the IDPH people were being overdosed with morphine because they were hard to care for making the description “Angel of Death” completely misleading.


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