It’s not often that I write about dehydration and malnutrition in nursing homes. That’s not because it doesn’t happen or because it isn’t dangerous. In fact, dehydration and malnutrition are the silent foundations upon which many nursing home deaths are built. Back in the 1980s, a group of Irish prisoners died during a self imposed […]
Resident Hospitalized For Severe Dehydration in Alden Orland Park Nursing Home
Resident Hospitalized After Medication Error At Bloomington Rehab
Two residents at Bloomington Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Bloomington, Illinois were the victims of nursing home neglect when staff of the nursing home failed to follow physician orders and committed a series of medication errors. One of the residents was hospitalized as a result. The resident who required hospitalization was admitted to the […]
Lift accident at King Bruwaert House
A resident at the King Bruwaert House in Burr Ridge, Illinois, was the victim of a botched transfer. Instead of using a mechanical lift, a staff member at King Bruwaert attempted to move the resident from reclining chair to bed by himself and without the use of the mechanical lift. Like many nursing home falls, […]
Resident Fractures Hip In Bathroom Fall at Lutheran Care Center in Altamont
A resident was diagnosed with a fractured hip after she fell in her bathroom in the Lutheran Care Center in Altamont, Illinois. This was far from her first fall, and far from her first injury. She was admitted to the facility after she fractured her hip in a fall from home. Whenever a resident is […]
Resident Falls Three Times, Fractures Hip at Claridge Healthcare Center
A resident at the Claridge Healthcare Center in Lake Bluff, Illinois fell three times in five months while a resident of the facility. Her first fall occurred when she was using her walker. The walker was found on top of her. A bump nearly two inches wide was found on her forehead. There is no […]
Resident Left on Commode at Danville Care Center
A resident at the Danville Care Center in Danville, Illinois was left on the commode in her bathroom for over four hours. This kind of neglect is an example of how quickly a situation can fall apart when staff fail to properly follow procedures. Nursing home residents should always have a call light within reach, […]
Resident Endures Three Days Without Treatment After Fracturing Hip
A resident of the Westmont Nursing and Rehab Center in Westmont, Illinois experienced a fractured hip during a nursing home fall. According to a report compiled by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), the man was an Alzheimer’s patient. At approximately 2:00 in the morning, he was wandering the nurse’s station in an agitated […]
Resident Dies in Joliet Home, Medical Exam Could Have Saved His Life
A resident at the Rosewood Care Center in Joliet, Illinois died after a massive colonic hemorrhage caused by an infection of Clostridium Difficile (C-Diff). The resident was a 69-year-old man who had a history of C-Diff infections. The resident had just been diagnosed with C-Diff a week prior, and when a Rosewood Care Center staff […]
Resident Develops Bed Sores At Lake Shore Healthcare And Rehab Center
A 79-year-old resident of the Lake Shore Healthcare and Rehab Center here in Chicago developed multiple bed sores while a resident at the facility. The victim has been diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer and is on hospice care. Needless to say, there is no positive prognosis for metastatic pancreatic cancer. However, the patient was alert […]
Resident Chokes To Death At Presence Villa Franciscan
A resident at the Presence Villa Franciscan nursing home in Joliet, Illinois choked to death while eating unsupervised. He was transferred to a local hospital and died nine days later having never recovered. The resident was assessed for choking risk upon admission to the nursing home. A note in her clinical record stated that she […]
Resident Burns To Death At Lake Shore Healthcare and Rehabilitation Centre
A resident of the Lake Shore Healthcare and Rehabilitation Centre On North Sheridan Road in Chicago burned to death on the smoking patio of the nursing home. A difficult to watch video can be seen at CBS Chicago. In the video, the wheelchair bound man is smoking a cigarette when the lighter in his pocket […]
Resident Burned At Walnut Manor, Walnut Illinois
A resident at the Walnut Manor nursing home in Walnut, Illinois was seriously burned after a moist hot pack was left on her skin. The burn on her right shoulder was a “full thickness” burn, meaning that the burn penetrated all three layers of the skin. This is considered the most serious kind of burn. […]
Resident Breaks Neck In Fall From Bed at Symphony of Joliet
An 82-year-old resident of the Symphony of Joliet nursing home in Joliet, Illinois broke his neck after rolling out of his bed. The resident has seizures and dementia. He cannot speak or walk, and depends on staff for virtually everything including being repositioned in bed. In late December, he was found on the floor of […]
Resident Breaks Back After Fall From Bed at Renaissance at 87th Street
A resident at the Renaissance at 87th Street nursing home in Chicago, Illinois fell from his bed and broke two vertebrae. The fall was the second in six days for the resident, who was initially admitted to the nursing home with diagnoses of hypertension, atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, abdominal pain, muscle weakness and cancer. […]
Bronzeville resident breaks arm during repositioning
A resident’s arm was broken during what should have been routine care. The man is a resident of the Bronzeville Park Nursing and Living Center in Chicago, Illinois with diagnoses of quadriplegia, depression, gastric ulcer, and diabetes. Having quadriplegia means a person is unable to move both their arms as well as their legs. The […]
Failure to give medications at Forest View Rehab
A resident of the Forest View Rehab and Nursing Center in Itasca, Illinois nearly died after the nursing home failed to provide the medications ordered by the resident’s physician. Days passed while the nursing home administration failed to take even the most basic actions to fix the situation. The resident is now on hospice care. […]
Resident Acquires Bed Sores At Meadowbrook Manor
A resident at the Meadowbrook Manor in Bolingbrook, Illinois acquired multiple bed sores while at the facility. Eventually, the bed sore achieved a Stage 4 designation, the worst of the four stages used to evaluate bed sores. There are few more obvious signs of nursing home neglect than the bed sore. Bed sores, also known […]
Relief For Illinois Home Care Program
A bill to reform parts of the Community Care Program, a state program that strives to help seniors maintain their independence and remain in their own homes has passed. The bill will make some wholesale changes to the program including shifting some seniors to a managed care model, freezing reimbursement rates, and implementing a data […]
Providence Downers Grove Fined After 3 Residents Develop Bedsores
Three residents developed dangerous bedsores while at the Providence Downers Grove in Downers Grove, Illinois. The first resident was admitted to the facility in late December of last year. By the end of January, her stage 2 bedsore had developed to a stage 4. Bedsores are categorized into 4 stages. Stage 4 is the worst […]
Poor Training Likely Resulted In Fall at Manorcare of Palos Heights West
A resident of the Manorcare of Palos Heights West nursing home fell on her face while being transferred to her wheelchair. The incident resulted in serious injuries to the woman’s face and was most likely caused by a failure to properly train nursing home staff. The resident’s plan of care includes the use of a […]
Paris Health Care Center Restrains Residents Without Medical Cause
In the 1970s and 1980s, there were a series of investigations into nursing homes across the United States. The results were less than stellar. The predominant images from those investigations was of elderly nursing home residents tied to their beds and wheelchairs. The public was justifiably outraged, and new regulations were put in place stating […]
Parents and Friends of the Specialized Living Center Fined $20,000 For Nursing Home Neglect
The Parents and Friends of the Specialized Living Center in Swansea, Illinois was fined $20,000 for nursing home neglect after they failed to identify and address an emergency that led directly to the death of one of the residents of the facility. There are few situations that call for an immediate emergency response like a cardiac […]
Pair of Suspicious Nursing Home Falls At River Bluff Nursing Home
According to a report filed by the Illinois Department of Health,two residents evaluated for nursing home falls suffered while living at the River Bluff nursing home in Rockford, Illinois have stories that are inconsistent with the River Bluff incident reports. The first nursing home fall took place in February of this year. The report filed […]
On The Importance Of An Experienced Nursing Home Attorney
A recent post by Mississippi litigator Philip Thomas asks an interesting question. The background of the matter, as presented by Mr. Thomas, is this: He sees the same nursing homes being sued over and over again, despite the fact that these homes are frequently poorly insured (if at all). And, he says, “And it’s not […]
Oak Park Nursing Home Where Patient Was Beaten To Death Had No Aggression Policy
A few weeks ago I wrote about the horrific incident that took place in an Oak Park nursing home. To briefly summarize, an 80-year-old man was savagely beaten to death by a fellow resident in his mid-60s. He died the following day. The injuries were so severe that the victim’s skull was shattered and the […]
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