Elgin Nursing Home Injury Attorney

05/11/2022

05/11/2022

11/19/2020

Pressure injuries (bedsores) claim lives of over 60,000 people each year and cost the United States healthcare system over $11 billion annually. 2.5 million Americans get pressure injuries every year and over the past 5 years, we have seen a disturbing trend of more severe pressure injuries. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services noted that no other preventable event occurs as frequently as pressure-related injuries. To lean more about pressure injury prevention, follow the link here: https://snip.ly/589bz1

11/17/2020

Small firm feel with amenities of a large law firm.

11/02/2020

Victims have legal options.

09/25/2020

Infection control failures in Illinois nursing homes began well before COVID 19. The consequences are widespread, affecting residents, staff and their families:

Six months into the pandemic, the new virus has infected more than 28,000 Illinois long-term care residents and killed more than 4,000.

09/04/2020

Before you admit your or a loved one to a skilled nursing facility, make sure you do your homework. One of the best places to start is the newly re-designed Care Compare website from CMS. The site even has a checklist for families evaluating a potential nursing home.

The federal government on Thursday announced the completion of a plan to fold its consumer-facing Nursing Home Compare website into a larger database of public information on a variety of health care providers. Now known as Care Compare, the overhauled Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)....

08/03/2020

Congratulations to our own Mike Cetina for obtaining 3 of the top 100 verdicts in the state of Illinois for the year 2019! An amazing achievement and reflective of the lengths to which we go to ensure justice for our injured clients!:

We are pleased to present to you the list of top 100 plaintiff jury verdicts obtained in Illinois in the year 2019. The list is comprised of various case types that were tried either in state or federal courts of IL.

07/25/2020

Protecting victims of nursing home negligence.

07/22/2020

"Families who’ve lost loved ones in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, patient advocates and attorneys are blasting an executive order issued by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker that they said protect an industry with a long history of issues.":

Families who’ve lost loved ones in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, patient advocates and attorneys are blasting an executive order issued by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker that they said protect an industry with a long history of issues. “Families deserve answers. Families deserve to k...

07/01/2020

"Nationwide, nursing homes reported nearly 179,000 suspected or confirmed cases among residents and 29,497 deaths. The latest figures include about 95% of nursing homes.

Earlier this week, a special House panel on the coronavirus pandemic launched an investigation into the crisis in nursing homes.":

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nursing home residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths, according to an Associated Press...