Chicago Nursing Home Negligence?: Tribune Reports at Least 13 Deaths in 10 Years at Alden Village North
The Chicago Tribune recently published a story reporting that there have been at least 13 nursing home deaths in the last 10 years at Alden Village North, an assisted living facility for babies, children, and young adults. Chicago nursing home neglect is a suspected factor in all of the fatalities.
Among The At Least 13 Deaths:
Brian Marrero, age 2: The toddler died on June 9, 2000 from asphyxiation and because his tracheotomy tube had become dislodged. According to records, Marrero should have been monitored every 2 hours but had not been checked for 3 ½ hours—even though he had a history of pulling out the tube.
Demetri Franklin, 10-months: He died from pulmonary hemorrhage on November 15, 2004. Franklin, who suffered from left vocal cord paralysis and bronchopulmonary disease, was rushed to the hospital after he stopped breathing. His mother, Ashley Seawood has said that the nursing home has never explained to her how her son died.
Kyle Pryor, 24: He died on July 19, 2004 after going into respiratory and cardiac arrested. Pryor suffered from asthma and mental disabilities. His mother, La Vern Pryor, says that she had become concerned about the care he was getting at the Chicago nursing home. She says that when she would visit her son, he would be wet, dirty, and have food crumbs in his wheelchair. Pryor’s death is one of several fatalities that, per the state of Illinois, the assisted living facility has allegedly failed to fully investigate.
The state has already fined Alden over $100,000. Failure to monitor, nursing neglect, and medical neglect are some of the allegations against the assisted living facility.
It is Chicago nursing home neglect to not provide a patient with the nursing care that he/she needs and to fail to act to prevent injury, illness, or death.
Examples of Chicago nursing home neglect:
• Inadequate monitoring
• Failure to supervise
• Failure to bathe patients
• Failure to notify doctors of changes in a patient’s health
• Failure to make sure patient isn’t dehydrated
• Failure to follow patient’s feeding plan
• Failure to give patient his/her scheduled medication
• Improper restraint
• Medical neglect
10 years, 13 deaths, The Chicago Tribune
Trib Details Horrific Conditions at Alden Village North, Chicagoist, October 10, 2010
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Alden Village North
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