Nursing Home Violations Claims Made Against Facility Where Worker Allegedly Threw Patient from Wheelchair Onto Bed
State officials say that they’ve received a number of complaints in just the last month accusing Clemmons Nursing and Rehab Center of committing at least 20 different violations and that they have evidence to substantiate four of the violations. According to an investigation report, in one incident a nursing aid reportedly threw one female resident, who suffers from a number of health problems and can’t walk without help, onto a bed from her wheelchair. The patient was severely bruised as a result. The assisted living facility has until June 19 to resolve the complaint or it may lose its Medicare funding for new inpatient services.
Nursing home workers work in such close physical contact with many of their patients that it is important that they know how to properly touch them and refrain from doing anything inappropriate or abusive. Molestation, bruising a patient by handling them too roughly, or touching them in a manner that is disrespectful or abusive in any other way is nursing home abuse. Not only can this cause serious physical and emotional injuries to the resident, but it is a violation of his/her rights and can be grounds for a Chicago, Illinois nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuit.
Many nursing home patients need help walking, bathing, moving from their wheelchair to a bed, eating, changing their clothes. Some of them may even need someone to help turn them in bed on a regular basis so that they don't develop pressure sores. This need for physical assistance places residents in a very vulnerable position and it is up to nursing homes and their employees to not violate this trust.
Clemmons Nursing Home Accused of Mistreating Residents, MyFox8, June 8, 2010
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Camera Captures Violent Scene As Nurse Appears To Dump Elderly Wheelchair-Bound Patient On Floor, Leaves Her, WCBS2, May 27, 2010
Our Chicago, Illinois nursing home neglect and abuse law firm refuse to allow assisted living facilities to get away with mistreating or neglecting our clients.
