There are many ways a nursing home resident can come to the end of his or her life while in the care of a facility. Murder is rarely the case, but an example in Illinois shows that two men with aggressive behavior toward one another were not monitored closely enough and got in a fight that left one of the residents dead.<\/p>\n
An 80-year-old dementia patient at an Oak Park, Ill., nursing home was beaten to death in February by a fellow resident 14 years his junior. Recently released documents from the Illinois Department of Public Health show that despite evidence of aggressive behavior from both men, nothing was written in the patients\u2019 treatment plan to show how to handle the men.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s family filed a lawsuit against Oak Park Medical Center for wrongful death for failing to supervise a patient that posed an immediate threat to Anibal Calderon. The OPMC\u2019s parent (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many ways a nursing home resident can come to the end of his or her life while in the care of a facility. Murder is rarely the case, but an example in Illinois shows that two men with…<\/span><\/p>\n