Former Resident Sues Illinois Nursing Home Company -- Chicago Elderly Abuse Lawyers
A man is suing the Illinois parent company of his former Iowa nursing home, claiming he was wrongfully discharged and abused by the home. After four months as a resident, the Quad-City Times says, an employee of Meadowlawn Health Care Center in Davenport, Iowa dumped the man in an unfurnished Illinois apartment with just $30 and four days’ worth of medication. Nine days later, he was admitted to the hospital with congestive heart failure. He also claims the home was understaffed, failed to give him his medication, didn’t respond to his complaints and harmed other residents.
This is the second lawsuit against Meadowlawn; the first was filed by the daughter of a deceased resident, who claims the facility neglected her mother. By failing to provide a proper diet or correctly treat the woman’s existing medical problems, the claim says, Meadowlawn contributed to a rapid decline in the woman’s health. She died just three weeks after she was moved to another facility. Meadowlawn itself was closed in September of 2007, after its Medicare funding and state license were revoked. It was fined multiple times in the last two years of its existence; its final fine was for moving residents out of the home with little notice to them or their relatives or choice about where they’d go.
If Meadowlawn was as bad as these two lawsuits claim, there could be more claims against its parent company. As a Chicago nursing home abuse attorney, I’ve learned that nursing home neglect is systemic. That is, if staffers are willing to ignore one patient’s need for food, water and proper medical care, the chances are good that they have ignored those needs for all of the patients, or at least all of those whose needs were difficult to meet.
To speak with the Illinois nursing home neglect lawyers at Abels & Annes, P.C. about your own case, please contact us at (312) 399-8988 or through our Web site.
