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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

A resident at Pinckneyville Health Care Center in Pinckneyville, Illinois died after suffering numerous nursing home falls at the facility. The final, fatal fall was unwitnessed despite the resident being placed at the nurses’ station for easy observation. Staff at Pinckneyville Health Care stated that the wheelchair alarm and padded lap cushion that the resident […]

The Arlington Rehab and Living Center in Long Grove, IL has been fined $1,100 for their failure to follow their own Fall Care Plan intervention for a resident who had suffered a prior fall and fell again. The resident was admitted to the facility after a nasty fall led to some severe lacerations that required […]

Two residents at the Forest View Rehab and Nursing Center in Itasca, Illinois were injured after experiencing nursing home falls at the facility. Both residents had been designated “high risks” for nursing home falls. As such, extra interventions should have been in place to prevent injuries from nursing home falls from taking place. The first […]

In February of this year, a nursing home inspector for the state of Illinois was visiting the Rolling Hills Manor nursing home in Zion, Illinois when one of the residents made a surprising statement. She said that she broke her clavicle (shoulder blade), but she didn’t remember how it happened. A subsequent inquiry by the […]

Two broken ankles resulted in multiple fractures for two residents of the Clark-Lindsey nursing home in Urbana, Illinois. In both cases, the nursing home falls could have been easily avoided through the use of simple assistive devices that were standard procedure. The first resident had diagnosis of epilepsy and osteoporosis. Epilepsy is a condition that […]

It was only a few months ago that I wrote about an incident at LeRoy Manor in Le Roy, Illinois. It seems that the investigation by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) was not sufficient to convince LeRoy Manor staff and administration to improve their quality of care. The prior incident involved a woman […]

A failure to properly identify and evaluate the causes of nursing home falls has caused the residents of the Claridge Healthcare Center in Lake Bluff, Illinois to live in a demonstrably dangerous environment. Three residents of the facility have suffered dangerous injuries as a result of this nursing home neglect. The first resident has been […]

Three residents at the Claremont Rehab and Living Center in Buffalo Grove, Illinois were the victims of nursing home neglect when they suffered repeated nursing home falls in the facility. The nursing home failed to provide adequate supervision to the residents and did not implement plans of care that would include properly monitoring interventions. The […]

An 83-year-old female resident of the Foster Health and Rehab Center in Chicago fell repeatedly while in the care of the facility. The injuries resulting from these  falls included a fractured hip, broken vertebrae, broken ribs, fractured bones in her face and a head injury that resulted in blood buildup in the brain (subdural hematoma). […]

A nursing home resident at the Daystar Care Center in Cairo, Illinois fractured her hip after a nursing home fall at the facility. This was the sixth time she had fallen in just 6 months, but it was the first fall that resulted in a significant injury. The Daystar resident was supposed to have two […]

The Illinois Department of Public Health deficiency report on the Champaign County Nursing Home in Urbana, Illinois is lengthy – 20 pages long. The report is filled with documented cases of nursing home falls, proposed interventions, care plan updates, and suggested causes. As a nursing home falls lawyer, I’ve spent a lot of time investigating many different types of falls […]

The relatively small fine ($2,200) assessed to Alden Estates of Evanston detracts from the serious acts of nursing home neglect taking place at the facility. Unless the administration of the home takes action to stem the acts of neglect that are taking place, the residents of Alden Estates are going to suffer serious injuries from […]

A nursing home fall resulted in a fractured leg for one resident at Boulevard Care Nursing and Rehab in Chicago. The fall was a result of a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) transferring a resident from her wheelchair to her bed. According to the Boulevard Care statement, the CNA “was in the process of transferring R1 […]

A resident of the Benton Rehab and Health Care Center in Benton, Illinois, fractured her knee as a result of a failed transfer. The resident was being lifted from the toilet to her wheelchair when, she reports, her “good leg gave out and I hit my knee on the floor.” The plan of care developed […]

A resident of Colonial Manor nursing home in Danville, Illinois suffered a nursing home fall that resulted in a fractured leg. She was being walked to the bathroom by a single certified nurses assistant (CNA) using an assistive device called a gait belt. A gait belt is a wide belt with a handle that a […]