September 29, 2009

Nursing Home Neglect Attorney Steven Levin Discusses Nursing Home Negligence

There was a short period when nursing home care was improving. However, LawyersandSettlements.com reports that bad behavior is returning to the nursing home business. Chicago nursing home abuse lawyer Steven Levin was quoted on the website stating that, “Unfortunately, conditions for nursing residents are once again on the decline.” He stated that there is an epidemic of nursing homes with untrained, insufficient staff and transient staff. Attorney Levin, whose firm handles hundreds of cases of nursing home neglect, stated that profits are being made at the expense of patient care. “Nursing homes are simply unable to care for residents and nursing homes are knowingly admitting residents they know they can’t look after,” Levin adds. "Sometimes doctors or lawyers are negligent and make mistakes, but what nursing home operators are doing is institutionalized neglect.” Levin & Perconti has recently filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against Alden Northmoor Rehabilitation Care Center in Chicago on behalf of a 77-year-old woman with dementia, knowingly propensity to wander and swallow unusual objects. While at Alden Northmoor, the victim swallowed a rubber glove twice and had to undergo bowel surgery to have the glove removed. Attorney Levin stated that it is amazing that the staff would allow something like this to happen twice. Levin & Perconti has filed suit under the Illinois Nursing Home Act, which states that every resident of a nursing home has the right to be free of neglect. Levin believes that nursing homes have corporately structured themselves so as to be essentially “judgment” proof. He believes that since many nursing homes carry no liability insurance they solicit residents without knowing how to care for them. Levin hopes that a new law will require nursing homes to carry $1 million in liability insurance. To read more about nursing home negligence, please click the link.

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September 2, 2009

Alden Owns over 40 Illinois Nursing Homes

The Alden Network is an Illinois entity operating over 40 nursing homes within Illinois. Due to the overwhelming amount of nursing homes, you may not recognize a specific home as an Alden Network home. Since the nursing home abuse attorneys at Levin & Perconti have filed a number of lawsuits against Alden homes, we have provided a list of Alden Network homes below. If you have a complaint against any of these homes, you should contact the Illinois Department of Public Health at 1-800-252-4343 and consult a nursing home abuse lawyer.

Alden Network Homes in Illinois

Alden Alma Nelson Manor- Rockford, Illinois
Alden Courts of Waterford – Aurora, Illinois
Alden Des Plaines – Des Plaines, Illinois
Alden Estates of Barrington – Barrington, Illinois
Alden Estates of Evanston – Evanston, Illinois
Alden Estates of Naperville – Naperville, Illinois
Alden Estates of Skokie- Skokie, Illinois
Alden Gardens Courts of Des Plaines – Des Plaines, Illinois
Alden Gardens of Waterford CCRC – Aurora, Illinois
Alden Lakeland Rehab & HCC – Chicago, Illinois
Alden Lincoln Rehab & HC Ctr – Chicago, Illinois
Alden Long Grove Rehab & HCC – Long Grove, Illinois
Alden North Shore Rehab & HCC – Skokie, Illinois
Alden Northmoor Rehab & HCC – Chicago, Illinois
Alden of Old Town East – Bloomingdale, Illinois
Alden of Old Town West – Bloomingdale, Illinois
Alden of Waterford – Aurora, Illinois
Alden Orland Park Rehab & HCC – Orland Park, Illinois
Alden Park Strathmoor – Rockford, Illinois
Alden Popular Creek Rehab & HCC, Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Alden Princeton Rehab & HCC – Chicago, Illinois
Alden Springs – Bloomingdale, Illinois
Alden Terrace of McHenry Rehab – McHenry, Illinois
Alden Town Manor Rehab & HCC – Cicero, Illinois
Alden Trails – Bloomingdale, Illinois
Alden Valley Ridge Rehab & HCC – Bloomingdale, Illinois
Alden Village Health Facility- Bloomingdale, Illinois
Alden Village North – Chicago, Illinois
Alden Wentworth Rehab & HCC, Chicago, Illinois
Barrington Horizon
Bloomingdale Horizon
Drexel Horizon
Fox River Horizon I and II
Heather Health Care Center – Harvey, Illinois
Oak Forest Horizon
The Lakes at Waterford
The Superior at Waterford

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August 8, 2009

Levin & Perconti Files Nursing Home Negligence on Behalf of Resident against Alden Northmoor

Attorneys Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby of Levin & Perconti filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County against Alden Northmoor Rehabilitation and Care Center in Chicago, Illinois. The complaint was filed on behalf of 77-year-old Mary Clifton of Chicago, Illinois for the injuries she sustained at Alden Northmoor. While she was a resident, nursing home staff failed to properly monitor the victim and she swallowed a surgical glove on two separate occasions. After swallowing the gloves, Mary had to undergo two small bowel resections, enduring pain and suffering. The surgeries took a toll on her physical condition and she is now immobile. The nursing home negligence resulted in her inability to retain nutrients. The victim was admitted to Alden Northmoor with a diagnosis of dementia. When she was admitted in October of 2007, nursing home staff noted her to be at risk for wandering and odd behaviors due to her dementia. On April 29, 2008 Mary was allowed to swallow a surgical glove at Alden Northmoor due to poor supervision. She was transferred to a local hospital where she underwent a small bowel resection. Upon her return, the nursing staff still failed to develop a care plan to address the victim’s propensity for putting foreign objects into her mouth. Three months later, she again swallowed a surgical glove and had to undergo a second small bowel resection surgery to remove the foreign object. It was at this time that her family removed her from Alden Northmoor. As a result of her injuries, Mary has experienced decreased mobility and is at risk for further digestive problems including a decreased ability to digest nutrients and dehydration.

“After her first surgery, Alden Northmoor should have created a specific care plan to address her odd behaviors, such as wandering and putting foreign object into her mouth,” said Steve Levin. “Despite the known risk that Mary had put foreign objects in her mouth on another occasion, the nursing home failed to address this behavior or properly monitor Mary and as a result, she had to undergo a second surgery. These surgeries took a serious toll on Mary’s overall condition and now she is immobile and faces an increased risk of future medical complications with her digestive system.”

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May 31, 2009

Community Meeting For Chicago Nursing Home Justice June 8

The Civic Action Network is holding a community meeting for nursing home justice. The meeting will take place on Monday June 8, 2009 at the Bray Temple CME Church located at 1049 E. 73rd Street in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will take place from 6:30-8:00 PM. The goal of this meeting is to address the growing disparities amongst the Alden Network nursing homes in Chicago. The Alden’s three homes on the South Side of Chicago provide half the staff time per nursing home resident as the nursing homes in the suburbs do. Additionally the nursing homes have faced elderly negligence lawsuits over 30 times for issues like medical malpractice. The recent wrongful death of an 84-year-old man in Chicago has prompted community organizers to discuss how this problem might be remedied. To learn more about the racial disparities in Chicago nursing homes, please visit the civic action network’s website.

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May 30, 2009

Disparaties in Care Found in Alden Nursing Homes in Chicago

The wrongful death of an 85-year-old Chicago nursing home resident launched an investigation by The Chicago Reporter to determine the qualities of nursing homes throughout Illinois. The investigation found that the specific South Side nursing home has the worst rating that any home can receive and that residents get less than half the time each day with staff than residents at a predominately white facility in Evanston which is operated by the same owner. If this nursing home negligence lawsuit is filed, it will be the 14th in Cook County court against the Alden nursing homes between 2004 and 2009. That’s more than three times the elderly neglect lawsuits than half of the city’s 91 nursing homes, with the median number being four. Schlossberg has ownership in 30 homes in Illinois. An analysis of those homes revealed that there were racial disparities in the care that that residents received. Each of the three predominately black facilities received the lowest possible nursing home rating. The two facilities with the highest ratings had 84 percent white residents. Residents at the predominately black homes received much less staff time than residents of the white facilities. For example residents at the Evanston location received 5.53 hours of care per day, while the Harvey facility received 1.73 hours per day. The investigation also found that the disparities between black and white homes were even greater where at least 75 percent of care was paid by Medicaid. The idea that race plays a role a facility’s quality of care is greatly disturbing fact recovered by this investigation.

To read more about the disparities in nursing homes, please click the link.

For a map of the Schlossberg nursing homes in the Chicago land area, please click the link.

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May 5, 2009

Resident Falls to His Death at Alden Wentworth in Chicago

An 84-year-old nursing home resident at Alden Wentworth Rehabilitation in Chicago died on May 4 after falling from a window at the nursing home. According to the Southtown Star, the victim was from Chicago’s South Side. At the time of the report, it was not know whether his death was accidental or a suicide. However, the article did note that the victim was suffering from dementia. To read more about this death at Alden Wentworth in Chicago follow the link.

Falls often occur at nursing homes, and in many cases, the results are devastating. "In many instances, deaths such as this are a result of nursing home negligence. When residents suffer from dementia or Alzheimer's, they require a great degree of care and supervision. Unfortunately, serious injuries and death may occur when the nursing home staff fails to provide this care," said Steve Levin of Levin & Perconti in Chicago.

If you or a loved one has suffered serious personal injury or death due to nursing home negligence, please contact our offices by email or at 312-332-2872 to discuss your case with one of our experienced Chicago nursing home lawyers.

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March 30, 2009

Levin & Perconti Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit against Alden Poplar Creek Rehabilitation and Health Care Center

Attorneys Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby of Levin & Perconti have filed a lawsuit against Alden Poplar Creek Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Hoffman Estates. Levin & Perconti filed the lawsuit on behalf of Warren Osborn for the wrongful death of his 94-year-old mother, Mildred Osborn, who was a resident at the nursing home.

When admitted, Mildred was assessed at being as high risk for falls and accidents which required her to have supervision and assistance with activities of daily living. Attorney Steven Levin noted that, “Mildred could not get around independently; she had difficulty walking and needed assistance moving from her bed to wheelchair. She relied on the staff at Alden to help her with almost everything.” After an initial fall, the nursing home developed a plan so that she would not suffer anymore falls. However, she two more times and required hospitalization. Doctors diagnosed her with a laceration above her left eye, a hip fracture and a subarachnoid hemmorage, or bleeding around the brain. She passed away four days later an her autopsy listed her cause of death as being attributed to the injuries she sustained at Alden Poplar Creek.

“Falls can have devastating effects on older people, leading to serious injury or death,” said Steve Levin. “In Mildred’s case, the nursing home knew she was at risk for falls and allowed her to fall on several occasions. Even after these falls, they neglected to implement new precautions to prevent her from falling again, and failed to consistently implement the fall precautions that were already required. Mildred’s death could have been prevented if Alden had only taken the proper steps to ensure her safety.”

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December 16, 2008

Choosing a Nursing Home in Illinois Made Easy-Part I

The new Medicare Nursing Home Compare Website can be used by Illinois residents to pick a nursing home that they feel comfortable and secure placing their loved one in. Several Illinois nursing homes have received poor ratings on the new Medicare sponsored website. Levin & Perconti attorneys specializing in nursing home abuse and elder neglect cases have brought several nursing home lawsuits against the homes which received poor rankings. Levin & Perconti have filed lawsuits for elder neglect, elder abuse, resident injuries some resulting in surgery and even death against the following nursing homes:

Warren Barr Pavilion
International Village
Alden Lakeland Rehab & HCC
Renaissance at Hillside

To research more nursing homes on the Medicare website please click here.
If you or someone you love may have been harmed in a nursing home please contact the attorneys at Levin & Perconti.

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June 27, 2008

Alden Must Pay Foreign Nurses Equally

The Seventh Circuit recently ruled that Alden Management Services, which operates seven nursing homes in or near Chicago, is required to back pay 119 foreign nurses. The decision was premised on the Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989, which allowed facilities to secure visas for foreign nurses. However, the Act requires the facility pay foreign nurses the same amount as registered nurses who are U.S. citizens. Alden violated this provision. The fear with underpaying nurses is that this will result in an equivalent drop in the standard of care. As a result, the court decided to require Alden to pay back the entire difference from since its first use of foreign nurses.

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June 16, 2008

Illinois Nursing Home May Lose Public Aid After State Inspection Finds Neglect

A recent state inspection of Alden Town Manor Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Cicero, Illinois revealed one resident who broke a wrist after a preventable fall, another with a pressure sore, and, finally, three more who had experienced unhealthy drops in weight. In December of 2007, the facility had been found to be in non-compliance with the laws that govern Medicare and Medicaid services, having six months to comply or have its public aid terminated. The six-month term is coming to an end and two weeks from now public aid services will no longer be available if the facility fails to become compliant. While termination of public aid is not necessarily a death knell for nursing homes, it is very detrimental as, on average, 90 percent of money for residents is provided by Medicaid. Facilities whose aid has been terminated have to turn to private funding, and existing solely on that is practically impossible. The original inspection came after complaints about two residents who had bed sores, a result of not being moved for a long period of time. This inspection led the Illinois Department of Public Health to give the nursing home a level 3 citation, on a scale of 1 to 4, 4 denoting such severity that a death has occurred or a resident is in danger of dying because of substandard care. In the most recent inspection, the resident who broke her wrist was known by the staff to be at risk for falls at the nursing home because of her behavioral history of wandering around the nursing home hallways and trying to move without the use of her wheelchair. It is not yet known whether the families of the victims will seek to file nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuits against Alden.

Read more here.

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April 25, 2008

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Adds New Website to Disclose Bad Nursing Homes

The Centers Medicare and Medicaid Services Nursing Home Compare website has added a new section that allows viewers to see information on nursing homes and identify homes that have drawn increased federal scrutiny for complaints and other forms of nursing home abuse and neglect. The website includes a listing of Special Focus Facilities which are nursing homes that receive increased federal inspection as a result of past poor performance. Notably, five Illinois nursing homes made the list. Embassy Health Care Center in Wilmington, IL and Harrisburg Care Center of Harrisburg, IL are both on the “not improved” list. Facilities that have shown improvement include Alden Park Strathmoor in Rockford, Berkshire Nursing & Rehab in Forest Park, and International Village in Chicago.

See here for the report and view the website here.

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October 30, 2007

Alden care cited in another failure to maintain patient's health and safety

Steven M. Levin of Chicago law firm Levin & Perconti has filed another lawsuit against an Alden care center, Alden Long Grove Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, alleging that Alden failed to obey the Nursing Home Care Act and that the negligence of the staff at the facility resulted in the plaintiff's wrongful death. The family of the patient, a man who experienced severe weight loss at the facility, had taken action in alerting Alden staff and filing a complaint with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). The IDPH investigation detected an inadequacy; the facility failed to implement a plan of care for the man's rapid weight loss. The patient lost an astounding 23 pounds between May and July of 2006.

In 2007, Alden Long Grove has been investigated 7 times by the IDPH. Alden care centers all over the Chicago-land area have been investigated 40 times. Levin & Perconti has filed numerous nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuits against multiple Alden care centers around Illinois.


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September 18, 2007

$600,000 Chicago nursing home neglect settlement reached against Alden Wentworth Rehabilitation and Health Care Center

The family of a 46-year old disabled woman will received a $600,000 settlement from the nursing home that caused her death. Chicago law firm Levin & Perconti represented the mother of the 46-year-old disabled woman who died as a result of the neglectful treatment she received while in the care of Alden Wentworth Rehabilitation and Health Care Center.

The woman was admitted to the facility in Fall 2000. In only five weeks in the facility, the woman developed severely infected bedsores and became malnourished and dehydrated. She was hospitalized for sepsis before her death. The family’s attorneys alleged that the nursing home abused and neglected the woman, failing to provide the care and treatment necessary to prevent the development of bedsores and failing to treat the bedsores once they developed.

Specifically, Alden failed to keep the woman from developing pressure ulcers by not performing daily skin checks or turning and repositioning her. Her nutritional status
was also allowed to decline which caused her wounds to worsen.

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August 30, 2007

Family files lawsuit on behalf of an 81-year-old woman who fell and died at Illinois nursing home, Alden Des Plaines

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today by John J. Perconti and Patricia M. Gifford of Levin & Perconti, a Chicago-based law firm, on behalf of the family of an 81-year old resident who died as a result of a head trauma sustained at Alden Des Plains Rehabilitation & Nursing Center.

The woman was admitted to Alden Des Plaines on November 25, 2005 after being hospitalized for a fall that caused a fracture to her left rib. Despite her high risk for falls, a condition that caused her to be admitted to the facility in the first place, Alden staff improperly completed an assessment for her risk of falling.

The woman fell in her room at Alden on January 9, 2006, which resulted in a head injury. She suffered an acute left temporal intracranial hemorrhage and subdural hematoma, all of which ultimately caused or contributed to her death on January 14, 2006.

Attorney John Perconti, stated: “Alden’s staff did not properly assess the resident for her high risk of falling despite her significant risk factors. The resident should have been considered a high risk for falls based on her history and because she was on psychotropic medications which can cause unsteadiness.” Perconti added, “In cases in which a resident is at risk for falling, facilities like Alden need to provide close supervision and assistance as well as alarms for their beds and chairs as precautionary measures.”

Attorney Patricia Gifford added: “The resident’s family searched for a nursing facility that would provide the highest standard of care for her. Alden failed to meet her need for close supervision and care.”

The facility was cited by the Illinois Department of Public Health for resident injury and improper nursing care.

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August 28, 2007

Wrongful death lawsuit filed against Alden Long Grove for nursing home neglect

Last November, 82-year Michail Aronov was admitted to the hospital with diagnoses of medication poisoning, dehydration, malnutrition, kidney damage, metabolic imbalance, significant weight loss and adverse changes in his mental status after being neglected in a Chicago area nursing home. A lawsuit filed today by Steven M. Levin of Chicago-based law firm Levin & Perconti, alleges that Alden Long Grove neglected Michail so badly during his residency at Alden Long Grove, that they caused his death. Ultimately Michail died from complications of sepsis, urinary obstruction, and a urinary tract infection. During his 8 month stay at the Alden facility, among other things Michail lost 15% of his body weight, a factor that caused the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to cite the home for neglect and improper nursing care.

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June 18, 2007

Chicago area victim of nursing home neglect awarded $1,000,000

A 56-year-old Chicago area assisted living facility resident was recently awarded a $1,000,000 settlement in a law suit against Alden North Shore Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Skokie, Illinois. The man, a quadriplegic, was a victim of abuse and neglect at the facility which resulted in the development of multiple pressure ulcers on his tailbone, hips and heels. The nursing home maintained that the victim’s severe bed sores were unavoidable for quadriplegics. However, when the victim’s wife removed him from the home, he spent a year receiving treatment at another Chicago area facility and the pressure sores healed. They have yet to return. The man’s attorneys, Steven M. Levin and Michael F. Bonamarte IV of Chicago law firm Levin & Perconti, said that the injuries resulted from the fact that the nursing home was understaffed, and the staff it did employ was inadequately trained. Levin & Perconti has extensive experience representing victims of abuse and neglect who have suffered from pressure ulcers and the attorneys were able to prove that the bed sores were, in fact, entirely preventable.

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June 15, 2007

$1 million settlement against Chicago nursing home in pressure sore lawsuit

A $1 million settlement was just reached against Alden North Shore Nursing Home in Skokie, Illinois. When a 51-year-old man was rendered a quadriplegic resulting from a work-related injury, he was placed in the care facility for rehabilitation therapy. When he developed severe bed sores on his tailbone, hips, and heels, the nursing home claimed that pressure ulcers were an unavoidable side effect for quadriplegic patients. After the man’s wife determined that the facility was neglecting to properly care for her husband, she brought him to a Chicago area specialty hospital where it took one year for the pressure sores to heal. Since that time, under the care of his wife, the man’s sores have not returned. Attorneys Steven M. Levin and Michael Bonamarte IV of Chicago law firm Levin & Perconti proved that the pressure sores were avoidable, as the man has been free of them since leaving the facility.

Michael Bonamarte commented, “This is a classic example of a nursing home facility that was understaffed and inadequately trained and supervised. When [the man] was admitted to the nursing home, they promised that they could meet his care needs. The nursing home broke their promise to [the man] and his family, and as a result [he] suffered needlessly.”

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June 11, 2007

Illinois nursing home aide jailed for raping patient

A nursing home aide, and resident of the Chicago area, was recently sentenced to 25 years in jail by a DuPage county judge for raping and impregnating a nursing home resident who could neither walk, talk, nor feed herself. Alden Village Health Facility for Children and Young Adults in Bloomingdale was fined $10,000 by the Illinois Department of Public Health for lacking oversight and mishandling the investigation of the alleged abuse and neglect. The 23-year-old victim’s mother filed a lawsuit in Cook County seeking more than $1,000,000 in damages from Alden Village, its management company, her daughter’s former physician and the aide. The child, whose mother suffers from cerebral palsy, was born with developmental disabilities.

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June 7, 2007

Nursing home wrongful death lawsuit filed against Alden Lakeland

While a resident of Alden Lakeland Rehab and Healthcare center, an 80-year old man developed multiple bed sores, became malnourished and septic and eventually died from complications of these injuries. The man’s family has decided to proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against the Chicago nursing home on behalf of the 80-year old man. The family is represented by attorneys Michael F. Bonamarte and Steven M. Levin, two Chicago attorneys from the law firm Levin & Perconti, who have been representing victims of nursing home abuse and neglect since 1992. The lawsuit alleges the nursing staff members at Alden Lakeland were negligent in failing to assess the resident for his risk of developing pressure sores and in failing to provide treatment to the man’s pressure sores once they developed. The home also allowed the man to become malnourished during his residency at the facility.

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November 23, 2006

Former Illinois nursing home employee pleads guilty to rape

A former suburban Chicago nursing home nurse’s aide charged with raping a profoundly brain-damaged resident changed his plea to guilty last week. The resident, who has cerebral palsy, was living at the Alden Village Health Facility for Children and Young Adults in Bloomingdale when she became victim to the sexual assault. The former nursing home employee faces a sentence ranging from 6 to 30 years in prison.

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