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Prompted by an outcry over abuse, Illinois proposed moving residents from Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center to similar facilities in the state. New reporting shows the problems at Choate are common throughout the statewide system.

The state plans to move residents out of one troubled facility. But new reporting shows similar problems throughout Illinois’ seven care centers.

An inspector generals investigation into long-standing abuse and neglect of patients at the states Choate Mental Healthy & Development Center sums up the challenge facing the administration of Gov. J.B.

Human services department director Grace Hou faces a big challenge in fixing an intolerable problem.

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The legislation, spurred by a news investigation, allows workers to be barred from healthcare jobs for obstructing investigations into staff misconduct By BETH

The legislation, spurred by a news investigation, allows workers to be barred from health care jobs for obstructing investigations into staff misconduct. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the bill on Friday.

The legislation, spurred by a news investigation, allows workers to be barred from healthcare jobs for obstructing investigations into staff misconduct.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation allowing workers to be barred from health care jobs if they obstruct investigations into abuse and misconduct.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law that strengthens the range of penalties that a state watchdog can mete out for health care employees who conspire to hide abuse or interfere with investigations by the state police or internal oversight bodies.