Senate advances bill to log abuse cover-ups in state health care registry
Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center is pictured in Anna. (File photo by Beth Hundsdorfer/Capitol Illinois) SPRINGFIELD – A measure spurre...
Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center is pictured in Anna. (File photo by Beth Hundsdorfer/Capitol Illinois) SPRINGFIELD – A measure spurred by reports of abuse at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center passed the Senate unanimously Wednesday, March 29 and will head to the House. The bill would prohibit health care workers who have been the subject of a substantiated claim of 'material obstruction' of an abuse investigation from further employment in the health care field. Those workers would be added to the Department of Public Health's Health Care Worker Registry, which tracks the subjects of substantiated complaints.