Aurora, Illinois Nursing Home Violence: 78-Year-Old Female Patient Stabbed by Roommate’s Relative
A 78-year-old nursing home patient at Provena-Mercy Hospital in Aurora sustained stab wounds to her face, eye, and arm when she was stabbed by her roommate’s relatives. Police arrested the suspect, a 39-year-old man.
Our Chicago nursing home neglect lawyers want to remind you that your loved one may have grounds for a Chicago nursing home negligence lawsuit if he or she was assaulted while residing at or visiting an assisted living facility. The best way to determine whether you have grounds for a case is to explore your legal options.
Unfortunately, nursing homes can be dangerous places for patients. Many of them are too ill or frail to take care of themselves let alone fend off an attack. Assailants at assisted living facilities have included nursing home workers, fellow patients, guests of residents, or workers that are not employed by the facility but are doing work on the premise.
Assisted living facilities are supposed to take steps to prevent Chicago nursing home abuse, neglect, sexual crimes, and violent crimes from taking place. When failure to provide this duty of care occurs, it is the residents and their families that suffer.
Just recently, an Illinois wrongful death complaint was filed against group home operator The Graywood Foundation and ex-employees Daniel J. Clark and Christopher P. Oliver. Clark and Oliver are accused of punching and kicking 21-year-old Dustin T. Higgins and encouraging two other patients to assault him. Higgins, who was a developmentally disabled adult, died from a head injury on September 1, 2008.
Clark and Oliver are charged with first-degree murder. The two former residents that participated in the assault, Robert T. Gardner and Edward E. Flexter, have pleaded guilty to aggravated battery.
Elderly woman stabbed in her hospital room, Chicago Breaking New, September 1, 2010
Suit filed in Streator man's group home death, The Times, August 13, 2010
Related Web Resources:
Nursing Homes, Chicago Tribune
Nursing Home Overview, Medicare
