nursing home deaths<\/a>\u00a0for decades.<\/p>\nMental abuse may include complete neglect by the nursing home staff where their basic needs are not even met. This extreme neglect may lead to bedsores and other ailments which may lead to serious injury, illness or even death. Patients have complained of severe physical abuse in nursing homes, including instances where nursing home staff has beaten patients.<\/p>\n
Nursing home staff may also verbally abuse patients with profanity or otherwise belittle them with words. Some patients have been sexually abused by the nursing home staff. Many patients may not complain for years. Not bringing such neglect to the notice of family or authorities may prove to be dangerous and even fatal.<\/p>\n
If a patient dies in the nursing home due to the neglect of the nursing home staff, the family may be able to get justice for the victim’s death. The Healy Law Firm has for years helped such needy clients meet justice through wrongful death lawsuits in the state of Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nursing home deaths and other types of medical malpractice have become a serious problem in Illinois. Unfortunately the most vulnerable to nursing home neglect and nursing home abuse are senior citizens. Nursing home abuse of the elderly, though a growing … <\/p>\n
Continue reading “An Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[124,129,122,127,121,123],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAn Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death - Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"An Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death - Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"An Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death - Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon","og_description":"Nursing home deaths and other types of medical malpractice have become a serious problem in Illinois. Unfortunately the most vulnerable to nursing home neglect and nursing home abuse are senior citizens. Nursing home abuse of the elderly, though a growing … Continue reading \"An Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death\"","og_url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/","og_site_name":"Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon","article_published_time":"2014-12-05T05:05:24+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-11-08T10:48:27+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nursing-home-deaths.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"healyscanlonveugelergannon","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"healyscanlonveugelergannon","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/"},"author":{"name":"healyscanlonveugelergannon","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/df0b2fbf0ab3af160a76ab67d61d8d21"},"headline":"An Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death","datePublished":"2014-12-05T05:05:24+00:00","dateModified":"2019-11-08T10:48:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/"},"wordCount":285,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nursing-home-deaths.jpg","keywords":["bedsores","elder abuse","elderly","nursing home abuse","nursing home neglect","nursing home staff"],"articleSection":["Nursing Home Deaths"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/","url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/","name":"An Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death - Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nursing-home-deaths.jpg","datePublished":"2014-12-05T05:05:24+00:00","dateModified":"2019-11-08T10:48:27+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nursing-home-deaths.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nursing-home-deaths.jpg","width":1000,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/an-illinois-lawyer-can-help-in-an-unwarranted-nursing-home-death\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"An Illinois lawyer can help in an unwarranted nursing home death"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/","name":"Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#organization","name":"Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon","url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-HSVG-0001-Healy-Scanlon-Veugeler-Gannon-Trial-Attorneys-Logo-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-HSVG-0001-Healy-Scanlon-Veugeler-Gannon-Trial-Attorneys-Logo-2.jpg","width":250,"height":250,"caption":"Healy Scanlon Veugeler Gannon"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/df0b2fbf0ab3af160a76ab67d61d8d21","name":"healyscanlonveugelergannon","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ebb2863a2575a28ebdca5253de4450b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ebb2863a2575a28ebdca5253de4450b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"healyscanlonveugelergannon"},"url":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/author\/healyscanlon\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healyscanlon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}