New hope for Illinois' mentally ill nursing-home residents
New hope for Illinois' mentally ill nursing-home residents (Chicago Tribune)

Thousands of psychiatric patients are likely to move out of nursing homes and into community-based settings in the next five years under a landmark legal agreement designed to reshape Illinois' troubled long-term care system. The agreement, expected to be filed Monday in federal court in Chicago , lays out a schedule for state officials to offer approximately 4,500 mentally ill nursing home ...