100-Year-Old Nursing Home Patient Hospitalized for Broken Ribs, Hemorrhaging, and Other Injuries
Police are trying to determine how Dorothy Butler, a 100-year-old nursing home patient, sustained four broken ribs, suffered severe hemorrhaging, and developed pressure sores and bruises while staying at the Boulevard Terrace Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Butler was rushed to the emergency room on August 16.
The assisted living facility’s nursing home administrator says that it is also trying to determine how Butler’s injuries happened. Meantime Department of Health and Human Services is investigating whether any nursing home abuse or neglect took place.
When the nursing home was last inspected in December, there were a few deficiencies, including failure to tell patients, family members, and doctors about significant changes in residents’ health. The deficiencies have since been remedied. The nursing home had been forced to shut down to new residents in 2008 after state inspectors found less than acceptable administrative and nursing service conditions.
Butler was staying at Boulevard Terrace so she could recover from a broken femur. After she was released from the hospital on Tuesday, she was admitted to a different assisted living facility.
Chicago Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse
If you suspect that your loved one is a victim of nursing home abuse or neglect, it is important that you remove him/her from the assisted living facility immediately and contact the authorities. You should also speak with an experienced Chicago nursing home abuse and neglect lawyer right away. If your loved one has bruises, other injuries, pressure sores, or any health issues that you believe have arisen because negligent nursing care or nursing home violence, it is a very good idea to get your loved one medical help as soon as possible.
100-year-old woman's injuries trigger investigation, Tennesean, August 18, 2010
100-Year-Old In Nursing Home Suffers Broken Ribs, WSMV, August 17, 2010
