Illinois Nursing Home Owner Pleads Guilty to Neglect
On September 11, 2002, at patient from Pavilion of Forest Park was transported via ambulance to the emergency room, where hospital staff discovered a large area of decubitus ulcers. The patient, Shirley Massey, 48, subsequently died from her wounds.
In September 2005, a Cook County Grand Jury indicted companies, Forest Park, L.L.C. and Care Centers, Inc., doing business as The Pavilion of Forest Park and Jason Garti, the facility's former medical director and wound care doctor with multiple charges of gross neglect that led to Ms. Massey's death.
On November 18, 2008, the corporate owner of the nursing home plead guilty to the charges and was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine and $75,000 in investigation and court costs.
The nursing home was sold to another company in July 2007.
