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Compromised Care
Illinois is an outlier among states in its reliance on nursing homes to house younger adults with mental illness, including thousands of felons whose disabilities qualify them for Medicaid-funded nursing care. The reporters documented numerous recent cases in which elderly and disabled residents were assaulted, raped and even murdered in the facilities.
Tags: nursing home; mental illness; Medicaid; criminals; Illinois; police records; health department inspection data; complaint investigations; criminal records;
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A Plateful of Trouble
The Wichita Eagle's three-article report detailed: "how a number of restaurants repeatedly violate the health regulations considered most critical to customer safety, with little fear of fines or other disciplinary action; how state and local officials ignored a regulation calling for restaurants performing below a certain level to be shut down; how a 'grading card' system used in the city of Wichita is sometimes misleading to the public." "The Wichita Eagle used computer data to analyze more than 20,000 inspections of eating establishments in Kansas since the beginning of 1998, taking a closer look at those in Sedgwick County."
Tags: CAR Health department food-borne illness environmental services food poisoning