When a Chicago-area nursing home’s negligence causes your loved one’s death, Illinois law lets you pursue a wrongful death claim as a separate common law negligence action — not as a Nursing Home Care Act claim — brought by the personal representative of your loved...
You can document nursing home abuse in Illinois by photographing injuries with a timestamp as soon as you see them, writing down exactly what you observed and when, requesting your loved one’s medical and care records in writing, and reporting your concerns to the...
When you place your loved one in a nursing home, you trust the staff with their most vulnerable moments. But a disturbing form of abuse has emerged across the country — and in Illinois — where caregivers take unauthorized photos or videos of residents and share them...
Over the past two decades, private equity firms have increasingly acquired nursing homes across the United States, and Illinois is no exception. The business model these firms bring is structurally different from what most families assume when they choose a care...
Medication crosses the line into abuse the moment it is used to sedate or control your loved one for the staff’s convenience rather than to treat a real medical condition. When that happens, Illinois and federal law have a name for it — chemical restraint — and...
Sepsis is one of the most preventable — and most deadly — outcomes of nursing home neglect, and Chicago-area facilities have a documented, years-long pattern of the failures that cause it. If your loved one developed sepsis while living in a Chicago or Cook County,...
