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Lakeview Nursing & Rehab fails to give medications

December 24, 2014 Blog Post by Barry G. Doyle

A resident at the Lakewood Nursing and Rehab Center in Plainfield was not given her scheduled medications for weeks due to failure on the part of the nursing home.

The medication was not available through the Lakewood Nursing and Rehab Center pharmacy, so a family member filled the prescription and brought the medication to the nursing home. The family member kept refilling the prescription, but noticed that the amount of medication was not diminishing as it should.

An investigation was conducted and revealed, based upon the number of pills that were still in the facility, that the resident missed over four weeks of medications.

Medication errors are sadly common in nursing homes. Sometimes the ramifications of these errors are relatively minor, and sometimes they are very serious. Usually, when residents fail to receive their prescribed medications, the reason is an expired prescription from the pharmacy. In this case, the facility had the medications, they just repeatedly failed to give the medication to the resident.

Depending on the medication in question, the lapses could have resulted in pain, disorientation, anxiety, or some other serious side effect.

When people think of medication errors in nursing homes, they usually think of a resident being given the incorrect medication. It’s true that many residents are inadvertently given their roommate’s medication due to nursing home neglect.

Sometimes, however, the medication error can mean that a medication was never given. In this case, day after day, the medications were withheld.

One of our core beliefs is that nursing homes are built to fail due to the business model they follow and that unnecessary injuries and illnesses and wrongful deaths of residents are the inevitable result.  Order our FREE report, Built to Fail, to learn more about why.  Our experienced Chicago nursing home lawyers are ready to help you understand what happened, why, and what your rights are.  Contact us to get the help you need.

Other blog posts of interest:

Failure to give anti-seizure medication at Lexington of Orland Park

Hospitalization from medication error at Bloomington Rehab

Medication errors at Lewis Christian Memorial Village

St. Anthony’s fails to treat pain during wound care

Failure to give antibiotics at Forest View rehab

 

Click here to file a complaint about a nursing home with the Illinois Department of Public Health.

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