Nursing Home Negligence and Medical Malpractice are Cited as Causes for Injury Lawsuit
The person who was given power of attorney over nursing home patient Ursula Gerencir has filed a personal injury lawsuit accusing a number of plaintiffs of medical malpractice and nursing negligence. The defendants in the lawsuit include Heartland Employment Services, Health Care and Retirement Corporation of America, HCR Manor Care Services, Manor Care, 8 unidentified entities and 10 unnamed individuals.
Lora Jarrell says the defendants accelerated the patient’s physical deterioration, which involved a number of emotional and physical traumas (congestive heart failure, falls, malnutrition, and medication diversion). As a result of the patient’s injuries, Jarrell contends that Gerencir suffered the loss of personal dignity and experienced unnecessary pain, anguish, degradation, disfigurement, hospitalizations, and emotional trauma.
Jarrell says the nursing home and other entities owed Gerencir a duty of care to act as reasonably prudent assisted living administrators and prevent foreseeable injuries. She contends that better communication with the departments that handled patient diets, nursing, housekeeping, maintenance, therapy, and social services should have taken place.
Chicago Nursing Home Negligence
Nursing home patients can sue for nursing home neglect or abuse if an assisted living facility allows patient neglect or abuse to happen. Unfortunately, there are serious oversights in nursing home care that continue to happen throughout Chicago, the rest of Illinois, and elsewhere in the US, and the residents are the one whose health and well-being suffer.
Not only is it important that you remove your loved one from an abusive or neglectful situation immediately but you may be able to hold the facility and its workers liable for Chicago nursing home neglect or abuse.
Woman sues nursing home, others for malpractice, negligence, The Record, November 3, 2009
Related Web Resources:
Illinois Nursing Home Care Act
Nursing Home Abuse Overview, Justia
