http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/01/16/nursing-home-dehydration-lawsuit/ Malpractice, Personal Injury & Accident Lawyers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/01/16/nursing-home-dehydration-lawsuit/#comment-320 Cheryl Calvin Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:59:48 +0000 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/01/16/nursing-home-dehydration-lawsuit/#comment-320 My dad was taken to Alden Princeton Nursing Home in August 2007. He came from Cook County Hospital after having been treated for dehydration. The purpose of putting him in a nursing home was to rehabilitated. He was eating a little and was able to drink liquids. Durring his stay at the nursing home he dehydrated and was sent to the local hospital. The Hospital rehydrated him and sent him back to the Nuring Home. Again he was sent to the Emergency Room for, dehydration, sepsis and phneumonia (my dad said his room mate had his diaper changed the night before and the nurse left the window open all night. Already being vulnarable because he was dehydrating left him susceptable to catchin phenumonia. The last time he dehydrated the Ambulance driver was infurriated. The were unable to get a pulse reading and could not give him an IV unit because his veins were collapsed. He was unable to speak and non-responsive. When she asked the nurse how long he had been that way she wouldn't answer. Again the hospital gave him nothing but IV fluids from 11:30am til 5:00pm by the time I left the emergency room at 5:30pm my dad was cracking jols with the nurse. I beged the nursing home on a number of occasions to please give my father water. He said he asked them for water and they would tell him they have too many patients and they would get to him when they could. The Hospital rehydrated him for the 3rd time since in the nursing home and I finally asked for Hospice to come to the Nursing Home in hopes they would at minimum give him water when he asked. They saw him for about 3 days then he died. He had prostate cancer that had matastisized throughout his body, but he had been living with it like that for over 2 years. He was not in the nursing home becasue of his cancer. He went to the nursing home to regain his strength after the first dehydration left him so weak, so he could return home. They litterally let him die of dehydration and refused to give him adequate water. My dad was taken to Alden Princeton Nursing Home in August 2007. He came from Cook County Hospital after having been treated for dehydration. The purpose of putting him in a nursing home was to rehabilitated. He was eating a little and was able to drink liquids. Durring his stay at the nursing home he dehydrated and was sent to the local hospital. The Hospital rehydrated him and sent him back to the Nuring Home. Again he was sent to the Emergency Room for, dehydration, sepsis and phneumonia (my dad said his room mate had his diaper changed the night before and the nurse left the window open all night. Already being vulnarable because he was dehydrating left him susceptable to catchin phenumonia. The last time he dehydrated the Ambulance driver was infurriated. The were unable to get a pulse reading and could not give him an IV unit because his veins were collapsed. He was unable to speak and non-responsive. When she asked the nurse how long he had been that way she wouldn’t answer. Again the hospital gave him nothing but IV fluids from 11:30am til 5:00pm by the time I left the emergency room at 5:30pm my dad was cracking jols with the nurse. I beged the nursing home on a number of occasions to please give my father water. He said he asked them for water and they would tell him they have too many patients and they would get to him when they could. The Hospital rehydrated him for the 3rd time since in the nursing home and I finally asked for Hospice to come to the Nursing Home in hopes they would at minimum give him water when he asked. They saw him for about 3 days then he died. He had prostate cancer that had matastisized throughout his body, but he had been living with it like that for over 2 years. He was not in the nursing home becasue of his cancer. He went to the nursing home to regain his strength after the first dehydration left him so weak, so he could return home. They litterally let him die of dehydration and refused to give him adequate water.

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