Illinois Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Filed After Pulmonary Embolism Causes Patient’s Death
The family of Alice E. Goodwin is suing Rosewood Care Center, Darrell Hoefling, Larry Vander Maten, and Dr. Brian O'Neill for Illinois nursing home negligence and wrongful death. Goodwin died on November 26, 2009 from a pulmonary embolism.
Goodwin had sought treatment at Rosewood Care Center in Swansea after she fractured her left hip. Unfortunately, was while at the Swansea assisted living facility, she developed deep vein thrombosis, which later affected her lungs.
Her husband, John, blames the assisted living facility and its owners, Hoefling and Maten, for failing to protect her from nursing neglect, not giving her the medical care that she needed, including round-the-clock care, failing to design a nursing plan customized to her needs, and not notifying her doctor in a timely manner that her condition had changed for the worse. He is accusing Dr. O’Neill of Illinois medical malpractice. John is seeking over $525,000 from the defendants.
Chicago Nursing Home Neglect
Negligent nursing care continues to cause serious health issues, injuries, and deaths in assisted living facilities throughout the US. Suing for Chicago nursing home neglect won’t bring your loved one back, but it can allow you to hold all responsible parties liable.
To give you a sense of how seriously the law treats incidents of nursing home neglect and abuse, recently, a jury ordered two nursing homes to pay the family of Charlotte Pauline Dean $9.5 million for her wrongful death. The 51-year-old woman died on January 19, 2006.
Dean, who suffered from cerebral palsy and had numerous infected pressure sores on her body, was receiving weekly medical care at Hutcheson Home Health Care. Country Crossing Assisted Living was the facility providing her with full-time care. Her family sued both facilities, contending that they only treated only one of her bedsores.
Blood clot not treated, says suit against Rosewood, Madison Record, March 8, 2011
Jury orders health care facilities to pay $9 million in wrongful death suit, AJC, March 6, 2011
Related Web Resources:
Bedsores, MayoClinic
Pulmonary Embolism, emedicine
Related Web Resources:
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims that Illinois Nursing Home Neglect Led to Patient’s Bedsores, Chicago Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog, February 16, 2011
Illinois Nursing Home Negligence Alleged in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Patient Suffering from Spina Bifida, Chicago Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog, January 18, 2011
