Cynthia Jaurdon-Simmons underwent neck surgery and was referred to Southern Nursing Home Health for her home-based daily wound care and weekly assessments of her viral infection. About two months into her care, Southern Nursing Home Health stopped providing services to Jaurdon-Simmons, but the staff did not advise her of this…
Frank Hegyi, 91, was a hospice care resident with dementia at the defendant Fair Oaks Health Care Center in Crystal Lake, Ill. On June 10, 2008, he was sitting in his wheelchair in the facility’s dining room when he stood up and fell, fracturing his right femoral neck. He was…
Rosemary Jackson was a resident of the defendant’s Nature Health Trail Center in Mount Vernon, Ill., where she was rehabilitating after a colonoscopy at a different facility. She was 85 years old when she returned to Nature Trail following that colonoscopy. Over the next four days she was lethargic and…
M.A. was 76 years old when he was first admitted to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation after knee surgery. M.A. underwent physical therapy and began to recover. He later developed shortness of breath and was administered oxygen and other therapy. Over the next several days, M.A. experienced shortness of…
On Dec. 13, 2006, Myron Tucker was admitted to a long-term care facility in Oak Lawn, Ill. Tucker was 52 at the time and was wheelchair dependent with impaired memory and judgment. His medical history included a seizure disorder, right-sided stroke with left hemiparesis, a craniotomy and brain surgery for…
As the baby boom generation ages, the population of nursing homes is also expanding. Elderly Americans and Illinois residents who reside in nursing homes are likely the most vulnerable members of this aging society. Nursing home cases should not be confused with medical malpractice cases. A medical malpractice case typically…
It happens that lawyers who handle nursing home abuse cases, medical negligence cases, personal injury cases, wrongful death cases, birth injury cases, product liability cases and general injury cases for those who were injured or killed work on a contingency basis with their clients. That means that the client pays…
The Illinois Probate Act was recently amended to include a new section entitled, “Presumptively Void Transfers.” 755 ILCS 5/4(a) et seq. The effective date of the statute was Jan. 1, 2015. The intended purpose of the legislation was to prevent unrelated caregivers from taking advantage of elderly or disabled persons…
The owners of a chain of nursing homes housed in multiple states around the United States have been held to have committed fraudulent transactions in an attempt to transfer liabilities to a “shell company.” The owners of Fundamental Long Term Care Inc. have been the subject of multiple wrongful death cases…
John Tully, 80, had a history of an unsteady gait. He was living at a nursing home owned and managed by the California Department of Veteran Affairs. Tully had fallen twice within a 10-day period and, as a result of his last fall, he fractured his spine. Complications from that…