Chicago, Illinois Nursing Home Negligence Can Lead to Deterioration of a Patient's Health
It does not matter whether or not medical malpractice occurred. Chicago, Illinois nursing home abuse and neglect victims have the right to demand personal injury compensation from all negligent parties if they were the victims of negligent or abusive care.
In one Illinois nursing home negligence lawsuit, a woman is suing Rosewood Care Center on behalf of Gerald Flanary’s estate. Martha Flanary says that the Edwardsville nursing home provided him with negligent care in 2003 when nursing home workers did not tell his doctor or family members that his condition had deteriorated.
Martha is accusing the Illinois nursing home of failing to properly care for Gerald and of violating the Nursing Home Care Act. She is seeking over $50,000 in damages. Martha claims that Gerald experienced great anguish and pain because of the nursing home neglect.
Chicago, Illinois Nursing Home Neglect
Failure to provide a nursing home patient with the proper care is nursing negligence. Many kinds of injuries can occur due to inadequate supervision, inappropriate nursing care, failing to help patients in need of assistance when walking, eating, or bathing, medication mix-ups, and other negligent acts.
Bedsores, sepsis, choking injuries, clogged breathing tubes, malnutrition, unexplained falls (fractures, broken hips, sprains and strains), depression, severe anxiety, emotional trauma, infections, deteriorating health, sexual assault injuries, physical assault injuries, and even death can result from nursing home neglect. Some assisted living patients who have been able to wander out of a nursing home because they were not properly supervised have become the victims of violent crimes, motor vehicle crashes, or have fatally fallen or died due to freezing temperatures.
Negligence case against Rosewood Care Center goes to trial Tuesday, The Record, February 12, 2010
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Illinois Nursing Home Care Act
