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On June 13, 2005, Raymond Jackson, then 50, was admitted to. Provena St. Joseph\u00a0Medical Center in Joliet<\/a>, Ill., for intractable back pain. He had a pre-existing condition of spine problems and was suffering from an unstable fracture of the T-12 vertebrae, which was not timely diagnosed and treated and caused him to sustain permanent paraplegia by 8 a.m. on June 16, 2005. He died of related causes in 2008.<\/p>\n

His medical malpractice lawsuit against several of the defendants settled for $2.77 million in 2012, which included $2.5 million from Provena Hospitals on behalf of its employee nurses and an outside nursing contractor.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit had included allegations that after a flat bedrest order was entered at 5 p.m. on June 15, the nursing staff chose not to follow the doctor\u2019s orders to keep the patient on flat bedrest and chose not to prevent him from moving during the next 15 hours, which caused or contributed to the hematoma that was found compressing his spinal cord.<\/p>\n

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On June 13, 2005, Raymond Jackson, then 50, was admitted to. Provena St. Joseph\u00a0Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., for intractable back pain. 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