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Frank Hegyi, 91, was a hospice care resident with dementia at the defendant Fair Oaks Health Care Center <\/a>in Crystal Lake<\/a>, Ill. On June 10, 2008, he was sitting in his wheelchair in the facility\u2019s dining room when he stood up and fell, fracturing his right femoral neck. He was hospitalized and died of unrelated causes on June 23, 2008.<\/p>\n

His family sued the nursing home for negligence in violation of the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act<\/a>, maintaining that the nursing home chose not place a \u201clap buddy\u201d on his wheelchair. Damages were sought for pain and suffering.<\/p>\n

The defendant nursing home argued that Hegyi was supervised appropriately and he was in the main dining room of the nursing home where he could be viewed frequently by the staff. The nursing home also argued that the use of lap buddy<\/a> \u2013 essentially a cushion going across the wheelchair \u2013 was not required and its use had been decreased pursuant to restraint reduction requirements because state and federal law prohibit the nursing home from using restraints that could not be removed by the nursing home resident.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s dining room when he stood up and fell, fracturing his right femoral neck. 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