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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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