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Levin & Perconti Nursing Home Abuse Cases in the Headlines
** S.W. v. Renaissance at Hillside, Inc. – $3,000,000.00 record nursing home pressure sore settlement against a suburban Hillside nursing home and physician for a 59 year old resident who developed multiple painful and infected bedsores which took four years to heal.
T.B. v. Undisclosed Chicago Hospital -$2,250,000.00 medical malpractice settlement for failure to diagnose infection for a 5 year old boy, who had survived a bone marrow transplant from his brother to treat his acute myleucytic leukemia and resulting graft versus host disease, developed septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and intercerebral hemorrhage causing his death.
B.S. v. Lutheran General Hospital – $2,100,000.00 settlement against a hospital and doctors for the failure to manage prolonged elevated blood pressure of a 17 year old dialysis patient which caused a hypertensive emergency resulting in death.
**J.F. v. Wedgwood Pavilion Nursing Home - $1,400,000.00 verdict against a nursing home for failure to manage a nursing home resident’s behavior which caused a shoving match, fall, hip fracture and death of a 79 year old fellow nursing home resident.
**E.L. v. Sunrise Assisted Living – $1,000,000.00 verdict against assisted living facility who admitted liability for failing to give a proper mechanical soft diet due to understaffing and poorly trained staff resulting in choking and death of a 67 year old man.
**C.P. v. Unidentified Nursing Home – $1,000,000.00 settlement for failure to properly care plan for and monitor a wheelchair bound resident’s risk of strangulation resulting in death.
**D.Y. v. Alden Naperville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center and Dr. Seema Gupta – $1,000,000.00 settlement for the family of a 78 nursing home resident against a Naperville nursing home and doctor for failure to prevent and treat seven stage IV pressure ulcers which caused the resident’s death.
**O.W. v. Hillcrest Healthcare Center – $995,000.00 settlement against a Joliet nursing home for the mother of a 45 year old nursing home resident with schizophrenia and alcoholism who died as a result of a gastric ulcer which perforated a vein and caused a hemorrhage. Signs and symptoms of the gastric ulcer, present two weeks prior to the resident’s death, were not reported to the resident’s physician.
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