Elder Law

ManorCare Nursing Home Found Liable In Death of Nursing Home Resident

By Levin & Perconti

According to the Chicago Tribune, a jury recently handed down a verdict against a nursing home in a lawsuit filed following a tragic death of one of its residents.

Following the trial a jury ordered Friendship ManorCare of Grinell to pay $546,000 to the estate of a former resident. In June of last year the 89-year old victim was being transported to a nearby hospital to have tests run. He was put on a gurney and wheeled toward an ambulance waiting outside the nursing home. However, the employees were not very careful when moving the gurney. They failed to notice the quality of the sidewalk that they were pushing the man upon. Eventually one of the gurney wheels dropped into a crack on the sidewalk. This caused the wheeled bed to flip over and the man to come crashing onto the sidewalk.

The nursing home victim?s head struck the pavement hard in this fall. He slipped into a coma and died shortly after.

Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on December 01, 2010 (boomark / email).