Chicago Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Claims North Side Assisted Living Facility Didn’t Inform Children of Their Mother’s Death
The children of Lovera Staples are suing Ridgeview Nursing Home for emotional distress and Chicago nursing home negligence. They claim that the assisted living facility failed to notify them that their mother had been for four months. It wasn’t until after Staples’s daughter called to wish her a happy birthday that they were informed that she had passed away in May 2010.
According to the Chicago nursing home negligence complaint, a nursing home worker spoke to Mary Staples on the phone told her that no one by the name of Lovera Staples lived at the North Side facility. When Mary and her brothers Roy Staples and Sylvester Staples went to the nursing home two days later, an administrator told them that their mother had died at St. Frances Hospital. Staples’ children also found out that her body had been at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office since May.
The next day, on September 14, 2010, the family set up funeral arrangements for Staples. That same day, without the family’s consent, the Cook County Department of Health buried her body. The nursing home is accused of authorizing the removal of Staples’s body from the morgue.
Staples had lived at Ridgeview Nursing Home for nearly 19 years. Because of her disabilities, she needed assistance to bathe, eat, and walk.
Chicago Nursing Home Negligence
Assisted living facilities are supposed to inform family members whenever there is a change in a resident’s medical condition. There are certainly supposed to tell them if their loved one has died.
If you or your loved one suffered physical or emotional injuries because an assisted living facility was negligent or failed to fulfill its care obligations to you and your family, you may have grounds for a Chicago nursing home negligence case.
Nursing home didn't tell family of mother's death, suit says, WLS AM, April 20, 2011
Related Web Resources:
Nursing Homes in Illinois, Illinois Department of Public Health
Illinois Nursing Home Care Act
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