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Mental Health Nursing Home Frequently Troubled by Poor Sanitation and Resident Suicide

By Levin & Perconti

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A mental health nursing home has made the news for two colossal problems: frequent resident suicide and unsanitary conditions. Multiple residents in the past year have attempted suicide and the state inspectors believe mental health nursing home abuse and neglect may be the culprit. For instance, two residents jumped from a window and were severely injured in the mental health nursing home and one resident died in the nursing home and was not noticed for 36 hours. These incidents are clearly signs that something has gone terribly wrong. Another resident was found living in a room with a dirt floor, covered with earthworms. The state has opened a major investigation into the home.

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Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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