Michael Berens

Citing the same unprecedented financial pressures that have hurt medical centers across the country, University of Chicago Hospitals officials acknowledged Monday they are eliminating the jobs of 140 nurses' aides....

The full extent of medical errors in hospitals--made by nurses, doctors and others--is shrouded by a haphazard system of regulatory oversight that allows hospitals to voluntarily report problems and provide...

Lax government oversight and a shoddy system of reporting medical errors allow negligent, incompetent and impaired registered nurses to return to work in Illinois even after committing deadly errors. In...

In Illinois, as a way to allay safety concerns among citizens, it's mandatory that certain licensed professionals update their training. Beauty shop employees face this requirement. Veterinarian assistants must too....

A week before surgery on Thanksgiving Day 1997, Dorothy Brenia placed a roast turkey on the dining room table, picked at a few pieces of meat, then softly told her...

Overwhelmed and inadequately trained nurses kill and injure thousands of patients every year as hospitals sacrifice safety for an improved bottom line, a Tribune investigation has found. Since 1995, at...

A nursing home owner whose central Illinois facility was shuttered in March for improperly recruiting Chicago homeless people is facing possible revocation of his professional license after state investigators accused...

State officials acknowledged Friday that homeless people from Chicago were admitted to a troubled central Illinois nursing home without undergoing required medical examinations and announced broad changes in the way...

A nursing home administrator who took homeless people to a troubled central Illinois geriatric facility had been barred by regulators from working in long-term care centers after he physically abused...

The surest sign that something was amiss at the Lexington Nursing & Rehabilitation Center came when unusually young and agile residents started showing up in local bars, drinking and returning...