Illinois nursing home injury attorneys

Nursing home abuse and neglect occurs more often than most of us prefer to imagine. Currently in the United States, there are over 1,000,000 residents in nursing homes. This large number is expected to further increase in the future. Such nursing homes across the country make billions upon billions of dollars each year for attending to their elderly patients in trade for money, benefits and social security. But unfortunately, not all these nursing homes retain a very good record in reference to actually providing the adequate care that they are clearly paid to administer.

In addition to a lack of proper care, an unfortunate occurrence at some of these nursing homes is also the physical abuse sometimes inflicted upon certain elderly patients by nursing home staff. There have been many occasions of brutal and unprovoked beatings that have been discovered involving staff members, some to the point of near-death. At other times, a patient might abuse another patient while the nursing facility staff turns a blind eye to the situation.

Abuse can be classified as psychological. Abuse can also be physical, which includes unreasonable restraints, beatings, or inappropriate drugging. Along with abuse neglect may occur. Neglect may also be physical, such as a failure to properly provide meals for a patient. Neglect may also result from a failure to give aid to the patient with those things that they need assistance with, like restroom help or telephone dialing.

The medical malpractice lawyers affiliated with Mitchell S. Sexner & Associates LLC offer representation for nursing home abuse cases. Some of these warning signs include:

• Bedsores
• Unexplained injuries
• Weight loss
• Excessive sleeping
• Theft of resident’s property
• Poor hygiene

In all of the firm’s nursing home abuse injury cases, we advance all costs. No attorney fees apply unless we secure a recovery on your behalf.