Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog

Sixty-seven year old Igor Shteyn died in a fire at a Niles, Illinois nursing home on May 14, 2008. The fire, which appears to have been caused by smoldering smoking materials in a closet in Shteyn's third-floor room, also killed Shteyn's roommate, Naum Berdichevsky, 76. The wrongful death lawsuit filed by Shteyn's children alleges that the nursing home employees at Hampton Plaza were not adequately trained to handle a fire and did not have an adequate fire prevention system. The Niles Police Department continues to investigate. To read more about this topic, go to Nursing Home Sued for Negligence After Fatal Fire

Nursing home residents are easy targets for free drugs. At least, that is what some nursing home employees think about the elderly people residing in America's long-term care facilities.

Just recently, Police in Macon, Missouri have arrested a nursing home employee for switching a patient's medications. The employee switched a patient's prescribed medications for an over-the-counter pain reliever. The Callao, Missouri woman was arrested after the Macon Police Department investigated a complaint of the medication theft. The arrested employee has been charged with felony fraudulently attempting to obtain a controlled substance, felony possession of a controlled substance, felony stealing, and misdemeanor abuse of an elderly/disabled person. She was being held in lieu of $26,000.00 cash only bond.