Nursing home hearing: 'We are in crisis' (Chicago Tribune)
Nursing home hearing: 'We are in crisis' (Chicago Tribune)

Social workers, residents and advocates filled a hearing room today to demand that Illinois stop using nursing homes to house younger adults with mental illness, including felons who police say assaulted, raped and even killed elderly and disabled housemates. At the four-hour public hearing in Chicago , members of Gov. Pat Quinn's Nursing Home Safety Task Force listened and voiced outrage about ...