Most nursing homes have residents who regularly try to escape from the facility, particularly if the facility has residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s. When residents are successful in escaping from the nursing home facility they...
As a Missouri Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer I receive calls on a variety of different cases involving nursing home abuse and neglect in Missouri. However, over the past five years, I have seen an increase in...
On March 27, 2012, behind these doors, the Missouri Supreme Court heard oral argument on a case involving one of the worst laws foisted upon Missouri citizens by its own representatives in years. Seven years...
When most people think of a nursing home, they envision a building full of elderly, bedridden people all of whom have multiple medical problems that need care around the clock. And, in a sense, they...
“I wish I had known what to do when I suspected abuse.” As a Rockford nursing home negligence lawyer, this is just one of the many statements I hear when I meet with families members...
My personal experience as a Missouri Nursing Home Lawyer is that far too many nursing home residents are overmedicated by those responsible for providing quality care. In my job I often meet with residents and...
A June 16, 2011 survey of Golden Living Center – Branson in Branson, Missouri resulted in a citation by the state of Missouri. According to the survey facility employees failed one particular resident on multiple...
A wheelchair-bound Chicago, Illinois nursing home resident died after accidentally lighting himself on fire while smoking. The 62 year-old resident of a Rogers Park nursing home was sitting at an outdoor patio around 8:50 a.m....
A faulty furnace led to the temperature in a nursing home resident’s room to reach 110 degrees causing the resident to suffer a heat stroke, according to an Illinois nursing home lawsuit filed in the...
A Glen Carbon, Illinois nursing home resident filed a lawsuit alleging that a faulty furnace at the facility caused her to suffer a heat stroke. The lawsuit, filed on July 1, 2011 against Eden Village...