Following Incidents of Chicago Nursing Home Abuse and Patient Violence, Somerset Place to Close by Friday
According to Illinois officials, Somerset Place, a Chicago nursing home, will close its doors on Friday. The assisted living facility, which primarily houses mentally ill residents, lost its Medicaid funding, as well as its license, following repeated incidents of nursing home abuse and patient violence.
Most of its 400 residents have already been transferred to other assisted living facilities. Care Centers Inc., the management firm that helps manage the assisted living facility, has been named a defendant in over three dozen Chicago, Illinois medical malpractice and personal injury complaints. The company filed for bankruptcy last year.
Chicago police say they’ve investigated a number of allegations involving physical violence, sexual violence, and drug crimes at Somerset. Just last December, there were 66 felons residing at the Chicago assisted living facility.
One nursing home resident, who was allowed to wander off the premise, was found dead. While at the assisted living facility, Maratta Walker managed to use crack cocaine and prostitute herself. Although she didn’t die on the premise, the Somerset nursing workers should not have let her leave the facility while she was unsupervised.
It is the residents who must live with the consequences of inadequate nursing care, poor supervision, and the failure to properly screen prospective residents to make sure that dangerous patients are kept out or, at the very least, more closely supervised and/or kept away from the general nursing home population. You can hold a nursing home and negligent nursing home workers liable for Chicago, Illinois nursing home negligence.
Deadline set to close Chicago nursing home, Chicago Tribune, March 8, 2010
Deadline set to close Uptown nursing home, WGNTV, March 9, 2010
Chicago, Illinois Nursing Negligence: Federal and State Officials Threaten to Shut Down Local Nursing Home Unless Violations Can Be Remedied, ChicagoNursingHomeAbuseLawyerBlog, January 23, 2010
Related Web Resources:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
If you or someone you love was a victim of Chicago nursing home abuse at Somerset Place or any other Cook County assisted living facility, contact the Law Offices of Steven J. Malman & Associates, PC today.
