Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Nursing home fined in resident suicide

  Barry Doyle | January 17, 2007 7:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Chicago nursing home was fined $27,500 after a resident committed suicide by overdosing on medications. The resident, suffering from cancer, had attempted suicide once before by overdosing on medication before his admission to the nursing home and had told staff members after his admission that he intended to kill himself. IDPH found that the nursing home failed to carry out a proper plan...

• Fall results in death of nursing home resident

  Barry Doyle | January 15, 2007 7:30 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Sterling, Illinois nursing home was fined by the Illinois Department of Public Health after a resident died following a fall at the facility. The IDPH found that the nursing home failed to have an adequate fall prevention plan in place for the resident.After being taken to the hospital after the fall, a CT scan showed a subdural hematoma. The resident died shortly after arriving at the...

• Palos Heights home nursing fined for medication errors

  Barry Doyle | January 12, 2007 7:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A nursing home in Palos Heights was fined after a resident was given medications which were ordered for another resident. The resident, who has a documented history of confusion, answered "yes" when the nurse asked him if he the resident for whom the medications were ordered. After this, she continued to give him the other resident's medications for the rest of the shift and did not discover...

• Oak Lawn nursing home under investigation for neglect

  Barry Doyle | January 09, 2007 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Police and the medical examiner are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 71 year old man. The man, a resident of an Oak Lawn nursing home, died after being transferred from the nursing home to Christ Hospital.Officials stated that neglect appeared to be a factor in the man's death.I am presently representing the family of another former resident of the facility which is...

• Nursing home resident dies of exposure

  Barry Doyle | January 02, 2007 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The administrator a Pittsburgh-area nursing home faces trial on criminal charges relating to a 2001 incident in which a resident with Alzheimer's was trapped outside on an enclosed patio overnight and froze to death. Once the resident's body was discovered, staff members were ordered to bring the remains inside and efforts were made to cover up the true cause of the resident's death.The...

• Nursing Homes Fined

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 13, 2006 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The Illinois Department of Public Health recently reported two nursing homes that were fined for not properly monitoring patients. The violations were both Type A violations under the Nursing Home Care Act.At Sterling Pavilion a woman died from a head injury she sustained after a fall at the nursing home. At Coventry Village a 64 year old man was rushed to a hospital after going into septic...

• Abusing A Nursing Home Resident Is Never Okay

  M. Brandon Smith | August 15, 2006 3:20 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  In a recent occurrence, a Greenwood caregiver at Emerald Gardens in South Carolina has been charged with physically abusing nursing home residents under her care. Lizette Henderson now faces six felony charges of abuse involving three men and three women between the ages of 69 and 94. Cases like this can make just about anyone sick to their stomach. How can anyone in their right mind see fit to...

• Elderly Deaths in Seattle Adult Family Homes Being Investigated

  Michael Myers | March 01, 2006 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  A Seattle detective has begun investigating deaths that occur in Seattle's adult family homes, in an effort to crack down on cases of abuse or neglect. Adult family homes consist of up to six patients and generally have fewer employees than nursing homes. Often, because of their size, these types of homes avoid some of the scrutiny focused on the larger nursing homes.Protecting our seniors is...