nursing homes

In late 2020, state and federal health agencies acknowledged long-term care residents' right to have visitors — no matter what.

Several Illinois lawmakers said this week they are determined to pass a bill in the spring that would overhaul the way nursing homes are paid through the state’s Medicaid program to address critical staffing shortages, but the state’s largest nursing home industry group is still pushing back against the proposed changes.

It's a tough time for long-term care facilities right now. Two of them in Springfield recently announced they are closing. Others around the nation are not in great shape. One of the Springfield nursing homes belongs to Bloomington-based Heritage Enterprises.

An unpublished report paints a complicated picture that neither fully bolsters Gov. JB Pritzker’s argument for an overhaul nor the resistance from the nursing home industry warning its cash-poor facilities will close en masse.

An advocate for those living in McLean County nursing homes says the vaccination campaign has been a huge success for residents—but she wishes more…

Nursing home operators are grateful long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines have started to make it to their facilities.For nearly a year, residents and families…

The pace of new COVID-19 infections at long-term care facilities in McLean County has slowed as vaccinations increase in those facilities and among those…

Nursing home operators say once the coronavirus is in a community, it's nearly impossible to keep it out of their facilities. As the COVID-19 death toll…

McLean County health officials on Tuesday reported four more COVID-19 related deaths. The three women in their 80s and man in his 90s were all residents…

A third wave of COVID-19 infections in Illinois is pressuring long-term care facilities in the state, including McLean County.Nine retirement communities,…