Here you will find articles covering a wide variety of topics of Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect cases.
“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...
The legislation was introduced after eleven people died in a November 2006 fire at Anderson Guest House, a southwest Missouri facility that was home for mentally ill and disabled residents. Now, Missouri lawmakers have voted...
According to a new study, set to be published in the American Journal of Infection Control in May 2011, infections in nursing home residents, which is the cause of approximately 400,000 deaths in U.S. nursing...
Thinking it would be a great practical joke on the following shift, facility employees Julie Payne and Cynthia Orlando reportedly thought it would be funny to insert a suppository into the rectum of a defenseless...
Jerome Wilson lives at Park Place Health Care Center in Great Falls, Montana. He suffers from dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Somehow, Tamara Belcourt reportedly managed to get appointed as Wilson’s Power of Attorney, despite the...
Forty-one-year-old Sonia King was making morning rounds at Carolina House on New Year’s Eve when she reportedly slapped two elderly residents and threatened to choke a third resident. The residents were provided medical treatment. King,...
An Oregon nursing home resident reportedly was sexually assaulted by an employee of the facility. The resident, who is mentally incapacitated, was allegedly sexually assaulted at Valley West Health Care Center in Eugene, Oregon on...