Cook County Nursing Home Negligence?: Evergreen Park One of Seven Facilities Facing License Revocations
Illinois regulators are taking steps to revoke the licenses of seven assisted living facilities, including Evergreen Health Care Center in Cook County. One of the patients at the Evergreen Park assisted living facility was hospitalized after maggots were discovered crawling in and out of her head wound. The Evergreen Park nursing home was cited for failure to properly care for the 86-year-old resident’s wound and has also been cited a number of other times for Cook County nursing home neglect.
According to the White House, some 700,000 to 3.5 million elderly are neglected, abused, and exploited in the United States every year and many of these crime are taking place in US nursing homes. While lawmakers are taking steps to combat nursing home abuse and neglect, so much more needs to be done to tackle this issue that is harming elderly persons in both private and community settings.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. The day was intended as a call-to-action to increase awareness about elder abuse awareness and neglect.
The idea that elderly people are suffering because people tasked with taking care of them are abusing, neglecting, or exploiting them is a horrific one. If you suspect that your loved one is a victim of Chicago nursing home abuse or neglect, there are steps that you can take to fight back.
Nursing home neglect and abuse can lead to bruises, bedsores, broken bones, sexual assault wounds, emotional trauma, fractures, malnutrition, overmedication, clogged breathing tubes, sepsis, dehydration, choking accidents, infections, deterioration of health, and wrongful death.
7 Illinois nursing homes face loss of licenses, Chicago Tribune, June 17, 2010
Honoring the Global Effort to End Elder Abuse, The White House, June 15, 2010
Related Web Resources:
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Administration on Aging
Nursing Homes in Chicago, Illinois, CityOf.com
