Saturday, November 22, 2008 East Central Illinois

Troubled nursing home's future at risk

By Paul Wood
Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:08 AM CDT

URBANA – With Medicaid cutbacks, deficit-spending, fines from one state agency and major sanctions from another, the Champaign County Nursing Home has had a bad year.

Since May 8, the facility has been barred from accepting new Medicare or Medicaid residents. The state agency that regulates nursing homes is tabulating a $200-a-day fine since Jan. 16, when a patient was injured.

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