It’s not rare to hear people to criticize government regulations. Often, they don’t seem to make much sense. And yet, there generally is a reason for many of them. It usually doesn’t take long for the regulation being ignored to reveal the motivation behind it. At the Village At Victory Lakes nursing home in Lindenhurst, […]
Nursing Home Neglect Leads To Fall and Potentially Fatal Hemorrhage at Watseka Rehab
A resident of the Watseka Rehab and Health Care Center in Watseka, Illinois suffered from facial lacerations and a subarachnoid hemorrhage after falling from her bed. A subarachnoid hemorrhage is the term used when blood fills the area between the skull and the brain. It’s an extremely dangerous condition. The injured resident was an Alzheimer’s […]
Nursing Home Neglect Leads To Fall & Broken Bones At Finnie Good Shepherd
Nursing home residents are entitled to a safe environment where the risk of accidental injury is at an absolute minimum. That protection has been absent at the Finnie Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Galatia, Illinois. Seven residents were found to be in an unsafe environment. Some suffered broken bones while residents of the facility. One […]
Nursing Home Neglect Leads To Fatal Infection At Alden Northmoor
You might have heard of Clostridium difficile by its more frequently known nickname “C.diff.” It’s a bacteria frequently found in hospitals and long term care facilities. C.diff causes a host of symptoms that range from diarrhea to colitis (a life-threatening inflammation of the colon). It’s a well-known, dangerous infection. An 82-year-old man died in the […]
Nursing Home Neglect Leads To Fractured Skull In Nursing Home Fall Incident
A resident at the Arlington Rehab and Living Center in Long Grove, Illinois suffered a skull fracture after a nursing home fall. The woman was admitted to the Arlington Rehab and Living Center in early September of last year with a head laceration and staples from a prior fall. The resident’s Care Assessment Summary indicated […]
Nursing Home Neglect Leads To Multiple Bed Sores At Winning Wheels
The Winning Wheels nursing home in Prophetstown, Illinois was recently cited by the Illinois Department of Public Health for failing to prevent bed sores on four residents. In addition, the bed sores were not quickly identified. As a result, they progressed into Stage II and Stage III bed sores. Winning Wheels is guilty of nursing […]
Multiple Falls at Helia Healthcare of Energy
Nursing home neglect at the Helia Healthcare of Energy nursing home in Energy, Illinois caused one resident to suffer multiple nursing home falls at the facility. A single nursing home fall can be unpredictable. For example, a resident with no history of nursing home falls can stumble on a table leg or a chair. In […]
Nursing Home Neglect: Bed Sores Ignored At Hitz Memorial Home
Residents with bed sores and residents who were designated to be at high risk of bed sores were provided careless and inadequate care at the Hitz Memorial Home in Alhambra, Illinois. When an incident of nursing home abuse is captured on video, it creates an instant groundswell of outrage and condemnation in the media. Nursing […]
Nursing Home Neglect Cited In 3 Provena Cor Mariae Nursing Center Falls
In less than a month, a resident at the Provena Cor Mariae Center in Rockford, Illinois suffered 3 falls resulting in a hip fracture and an extended hospital stay. The incident reports filed at the Provena Cor Mariae Center are very typical of nursing home neglect cases involving nursing home falls. Late last year, the […]
Nursing Home Neglect, Fall, Broken Ankle At Lexington Health Care Center, Bloomingdale
A resident of the Lexington Health Care Center in Bloomingdale, Illinois broke his ankle in a nursing home fall after he was left untended in his wheelchair. According to the report, the man stood to reach for his call light and lost his balance and fell, shattering his ankle. A call light, or call switch, […]
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