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A 51- year old resident of a Chicago nursing home died the evening of July 4 due to drowning in the bathtub. The woman was found a little before 9 p.m. in her bathtub with the water still running. The woman was a mentally ill patient. The nursing home provides care to approximately 100 residents …

Earlier this month, a family filed a wrongful death suit against an Illinois nursing home, alleging the staff was negligent and failed to properly treat multiple bedsores that resulted in sepsis and eventual death. When the deceased was admitted to the nursing home, she had stage two bedsores after a week-long stay at a local …

The family of a Colorado woman has filed a wrongful death suit against a state nursing home in Trinidad, Colorado. The family alleges that the staff’s negligent care resulted in the woman’s death, who suffered from dehydration, malnutrition and complications due to a pressure ulcer before dying in October 2007. According to the plaintiff’s complaint, …

Texas Police in Lufkin arrested a woman suspected in a nursing home abuse case this week after an employee reported witnessing her physically abuse a patient. According to the arrest affidavit, Shondra Rodriquez was caught abusing an 80-year-old woman last month at the Castle Pines nursing home. According to the staff worker who witnessed the …

Lexington Health Care Center of Lake Zurich outside of Chicago was sued last week on behalf of Edna Kneidek, a former resident who suffered multiple injuries from falls including a hip fracture that has left her permanently immobile. According to the plaintiff’s attorney, Kneidek was admitted to Lexington Health Care in Dec. 2006 after residing …

In a complaint filed on Feb. 20 in a St. Clair County Circuit Court in Illinois, a brother and sister sued a community support service facility in Southern Illinois for the wrongful death of their brother. Taylor, a 54-year-old mentally retarded man, died last August due to complications from a hip surgery that he needed …

Weeks after a fatally injured mother’s family began their investigation, the circumstances surrounding their mother’s death have finally begun to be revealed. The night their mother died, an employee at the Itaca nursing home heard a door alarm sound down the hall. Seeing nothing by the door, she simply shut off the alarm and continued …

In a wrongful death suit filed last week, the family of a mother alleged that a nursing home was directly responsible for their mother’s death. According to the mother’s three daughters, the nursing home’s negligence failed to ensure that the staff properly monitored their mother’s condition. They claim that the mother never received the right …