Did Nursing Home Patient Commit Suicide With Supplies Left In His Room?
An apparent nursing home suicide is under investigation at Heartland Nursing Home (a ManorCare facility) in Galesburg, IL. Using an oxygen tube and an electrical cord, the patient apparently fashioned a noose and hung himself from a bar on the ceiling which had been installed to help the man reposition himself--- or did he? While officials investigate this nursing home death, a primary focus of the investigation will center around if this patients death was indeed intentional or a situation where sloppy storage of medical equipment allowed the patient to become entangled--- and eventually strangled to death. Due to the...
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Hypothermia Confirmed As Cause Of Death In Nursing Home Wandering Case
// I remember the not-so-distant past when my four-year-old son was in his door playing mode. Doors would slam, hardware would break, but my wife and I were grateful as long as he stayed inside. Obviously, anyone seeing a toddler running around unchaperoned would (hopefully) call the police and advise them that his parents should be evaluated to see if they are in sound mind to care for their child! Much like a child, elderly nursing home patients-- with conditions such as Alzheimer's and dementia-- face the same risks when they leave the...
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Will Proposal Notifying Coroner Following Nursing Home Deaths Help Deter Abuse?
The Lexington Herald Leader is reporting about proposed legislation that would require Kentucky nursing homes to notify coroners following the death of nursing home patients at the facility or shortly after their discharge. The proposal is intended to assist families and prosecutors to identify and pursue situations involving suspected nursing home abuse and neglect. Currently, Kentucky-- like many states has loose guidelines regarding the notification of coroners following the death of a nursing home patient. Under the current laws in Kentucky, nursing homes are given broad discretion when to notify authorities as to a death that is believed to related...
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Grand Jury Indicts Elderly Woman On Charges Related To The Murder Of Her Roommate In Nursing Home
98-year-old Laura Lundquist is one step closer to a jail house cell after a Grand Jury indicted the woman on murder charges related to the strangulation and suffocation death of her 100-year-old roommate earlier this year. A Judge ordered Lundquist to undergo an evaluation at a hospital to determine if she is competent to for a criminal trial. According to the District Attorney, Lundquist's roommate was found dead in her bed during a routine check. An autopsy confirmed that Lundquist's roommate died from manual strangulation and suffocation. Related: Centenarian Murdered At Nursing Home With Troubled Past Autopsies May Help...
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Autopsies May Help Families Determine If Their Loved One Was A Victim Of Nursing Home Neglect Or Abuse
Deciding whether to have an autopsy performed on a loved one is indeed a very personal decision for a family to make following a death. An autopsy can help a family get answers to not only the cause of death, and in the case of potential nursing home negligence, what-- if any, errors may have been made by a medical facility that may have caused the death. After reading this news article about how a disabled nursing home patient may have 'choked to death' on his lunch I was reminded by how valuable autopsies can be where a death...
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