70% Of Residents Test Positive For COVID-19 At Symphony Of South Shore Nursing Home
A total of 111 residents at the Symphony of South Shore nursing home have tested positive for COVID-19, out of 158 altogether.
A total of 111 residents at the Symphony of South Shore nursing home have tested positive for COVID-19, out of 158 altogether.
"Right now, I think this is a matter for health officials to get involved, and start untangling the mess of what happened inside that nursing home," O'Dekirk said.
The family of a 96-year-old man says the nursing home facility he lives in made him sick and he's now facing eviction.
Late Monday morning after multiple unanswered calls, a Chicago woman's aunt and son went to check on her at her nursing home. They found her dead in her bed, already cold.
Glenview Terrace took Willard Berkson to court when he was unable to pay for his wife's stay at the nursing home before her death in 2016.
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Workers at a Burbank nursing home chose the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to stage a one-day walkout.
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Police have found a 53-year-old woman who was reported missing Thursday from a nursing home in south suburban Lansing.
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Zenon Magnuszewski was last seen about 5 p.m. Thursday at the Central Nursing Home, 2450 N. Central Ave., according to Chicago Police.
The death of a 71-year-old man who had a chair thrown at him at a West Side nursing home 10 months ago has been ruled a homicide.
A West Side nursing home agreed to an $875,000 settlement for the family of an elderly man who choked to death at the Wicker Park facility.
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Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin appealed in a letter sent Monday to the secretaries of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs to "ensure the Illinois Veterans' Home-Quincy is taking the proper steps" to care for its surviving 400 residents and to prevent a future outbreak.
Tuesday night, lifelong South Shore resident Christon Barlow was out picking up a few things for other nursing home residents and the staff, when he was shot and killed.
Brandy N. Campbell, 31, was upset with the way her mother's medication was labeled when she came to the fourth floor of the Monroe Pavilion Health and Treatment Center at 1400 W. Monroe, Cook County prosecutors said at a Sunday bond hearing.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said it has determined 98-year-old Leon Krynicki died primarily due to heart problems. His hospitalization on Feb. 3 might have been due to over-medication, but the medical examiner's office said the medication did not contribute to his death about one month later.
Bria Abrams, 21, has been charged with felony theft, for allegedly stealing from five elderly people living at Alden Poplar Creek, at 1545 N. Barrington Rd., while she worked there.
Police in the far south suburbs have opened an investigation, after three of six nursing home residents who were hospitalized on the same day last month have died.
The fire started around 8:20 a.m. at Presence Ballard Rehabilitation, at 9300 Ballard Rd. North Maine Fire Protection District officials said the fire was contained to a single unit at the nursing home, and the building's sprinkler system extinguished the flames by the time firefighters arrived.
Craig Taylor, facing a charge of reckless conduct, hit John Wrana with four bean bag rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun when the elderly man became unruly and threatened officers, he says.
The state's attorney general supports the extra set of eyes and ears and so does the daughter of a woman allegedly injured, reports Suzanne Le Mignot.
L.C. Scott was a resident at Westchester Rehab in June 2012 when he was taken to La Grange Memorial Hospital for suspected gastro intestinal bleeding and low hemoglobin levels, the suit claims.
A Park Forest police officer has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in connection with the death of a 95-year-old man at a suburban senior facility last year.
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