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On July 29, 2010, Governor Pat Quinn signed a landmark nursing home safety bill. The new legislation is designed to put in place additional safeguards to protect Illinois senior citizens living in nursing home facilities from harm or nursing home abuse<\/a>.
\nOne of these provisions under the new Illinois nursing home law requires additional screening of incoming nursing home residents, including criminal background checks and psychological background checks. In Illinois many nursing home residents are not actually physically impaired, but were being placed in nursing home facilities instead of a long home mental institution. The new law attempts to relocate many of the mentally ill patients currently residing in Illinois nursing homes in an effort to diminish overcrowding and its potential for nursing home abuse<\/a>.
\nThe tentative plan is that these mental health patients will be transferred from the nursing homes to smaller residential programs that are more assisted living situations. The mental health communities will supposedly have more staff and better supports for mentally ill patients than their current residences within nursing home facilities.<\/p>\n

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