The Illinois Attorney General’s office conducted a sweep this week at the Golden Moments Senior Care Center in Jacksonville, Illinois. This is the 11th sweep of a nursing home in the state in the last few months, in an effort to clean up the state’s less than stellar nursing home record.

The nursing home was one wherein both elderly patients and convicted felons are housed, a sadly common state of affairs. Five former sex offenders are housed in the Golden Moments Senior Care center, and the nursing home was targeted for failing to provide risk assessments to the state for three of those five offenders.

Earlier this year, the nursing home was fined $50,000 in connection with the death of a 74-year-old resident who choked on food despite staffers’ knowledge of that possibility given the patient’s history. In 2009, the home was fined $20,000 for failing to keep residents from being mentally, verbally, and physically abused. Staff members were found to be slapping and bullying residents.

Nursing homes with a history of abuse need to be held accountable for their inaction if they do not fix their problems. If you or someone you love has been the victim of elderly abuse, contact the New Jersey nursing home abuse attorneys of Levinson Axelrod at 800-346-5529 as soon as possible.