{"id":413324,"date":"2010-03-10T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/sen-collins-home\/769-collins-and-steans-introduce-nursing-home-reform"},"modified":"2010-03-10T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:10:22","slug":"collins-and-steans-introduce-nursing-home-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413324","title":{"rendered":"Collins and Steans Introduce Nursing Home Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" title=\"\" border=\"null\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/stories\/2010\/collins-030910br0351-031010.jpg\" \/>SPRINGFIELD<\/strong>\u2013 In one newspaper story after another, a grave issue came under the spotlight: thousands of frail seniors live in inappropriate conditions at dozens of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1><br \/>\n<st1:place><br \/>\n<st1:state>Illinois<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> nursing homes \u2013 sharing living quarters with dangerous individuals, suffering abuse or neglect, and even receiving the wrong medications for their ailments.<\/p>\n<p>In order to put a stop to abuses, and make sure older Illinoisans who live in institutional settings get the care and safety they need, a group of legislators and advocacy organizations convened by AARP came together today in Springfield to announce landmark legislation that will reform the way in which nursing homes operate in Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD\u2013 In one newspaper story after another, a grave issue came under the spotlight: thousands of frail seniors live in inappropriate conditions at dozens of Illinois nursing homes \u2013 sharing living quarters with dangerous individuals, suffering abuse or neglect, and even receiving the wrong medications for their ailments. In order to put a stop to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}