Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse

Nursing Home Abuse Law Firm

Many kinds of injuries can occur to a resident of abuse and neglect at a nursing home and assisted living facility in IL. Common warning signs of abuse and neglect:

Warning Signs of Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect:

• Bedsores
• Restraints 
• Bruising or fractures 
• Malnutrition 
• Frequent illness/failure to report illness 
• Sudden death or hospitalization

Warning Signes of Assisted Living Physical Abuse:

• Prolonged deprivation of food or water
• Medication errors
• Unexplained injuries 
• Reports of slapping, pushing, shaking, beating 
• Bruising Broken arm (humerus, radius, ulna),
• Broken leg (femur, tibia, fibula) 
• Fractured skull, fractured hip, fractured clavicle, and other bone bones. 

Warning Signs of Nursing Home Neglect:

• Lack of care for existing medical problems
• Failure to prevent malnutrition, bedsores, or infections 
• Failure to protect residents from health and safety, hazard, injury, or death:resident wandering (outside facility) when staff is unaware resident is missing. 

Contact Cullotta Law Offices for a FREE consultation at 847-651-7191.

If you have any reason to believe a loved one is or has been abused or neglected in a nursing home or assisted living facility, contact a Nursing Home Abuse Law Firm.