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"My Injury Guy" Scott DeSalvo
Trial-Trained Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer for Joliet & Will County
Joliet has many nursing homes and rehab centers serving Will County families. Some provide excellent care. Others struggle with chronic understaffing, and residents pay the price with bedsores, falls, dehydration, and infections.
Here's what many families don't know: the federal government keeps a list of nursing homes with a persistent record of serious problems, called Special Focus Facilities, and publishes inspection results and staffing levels for every Medicare-certified facility. Checking that history can tell you a lot about what happened to your loved one.
I'm Scott DeSalvo, and I've handled injury cases for almost 30 years. For other kinds of injuries, see my Joliet personal injury attorney page.
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When I was nine, my father, a truck driver and Teamster, was badly hurt at work. His lawyer let his case drag on for seventeen years and then sued him for more fees.
I saw what that did to my family. That's why my clients get straight answers, returned calls, and a lawyer who's genuinely in their corner.
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Federal Care Compare data and Illinois Department of Public Health reports show inspection results, violations, and staffing. A facility's history can show it knew about problems.
The federal Special Focus Facility program targets nursing homes with a history of serious quality issues for extra inspections.
The Act (210 ILCS 45) protects residents and allows recovery of attorney's fees from facilities that violate it.
Too few aides means residents don't get turned, fed, or helped to the bathroom.
Bottom Line: A facility's track record is public, and it matters.
Pressure injuries from neglect.
From poor supervision.
From inadequate help eating and drinking.
Physical, emotional, sexual, or financial.
Picture this. Your father lives in a Joliet nursing home. Over two months he loses fifteen pounds and develops a bedsore. You later learn the facility was cited for understaffing the year before. That history can help show the neglect wasn't an accident.
Look, facilities use familiar defenses:
Here's what most lawyers won't tell you: payroll-based staffing data that facilities report to the federal government can show how many aides were actually on shift. Bottom Line: Staffing records often contradict the chart.
Most cases settle, and a fair settlement is usually the best result. What gets insurers to pay fairly is knowing your lawyer is ready to win at trial.
I'm a graduate of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College and the exclusive Keenan Trial Institute, I've invested more than $100,000 in advanced trial training, and I've tried more than 30 jury trials.
Nothing up front. I advance the costs of your case, and my fee comes only from what I recover. The FAQ lists the percentages.
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It starts with a free, honest conversation. If you hire me, I gather the evidence while you focus on your health, then negotiate once the full picture of your losses is clear. If the other side won't be fair, I file suit and keep going. Joliet cases are filed in the Circuit Court of Will County, at 100 W. Jefferson Street downtown.
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Evidence fades fast, and the insurance company has already started working on its side of the story. Call me for a free consultation, 24/7/365. No money out of pocket. No fee unless we win.
Nearest office: The Law Office of Scott D. DeSalvo, LLC, 116 N Chicago St, Suite 301 - Kendall, Joliet, IL 60432, in downtown Joliet. Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., and by appointment.
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Nothing up front. I work on contingency, so you pay no money out of pocket and my fee comes only from what I recover: 33⅓% for most cases, or 40% if a lawsuit is filed. I advance the costs. If we don't win, there's no fee. Call 24/7/365 at 312-500-4500.
Medicare's Care Compare website lists inspection results, staffing, and ratings for certified facilities, and the Illinois Department of Public Health publishes violations.
It's a federal program that identifies nursing homes with a persistent record of serious quality problems for more frequent inspections.
Under the Nursing Home Care Act, a facility that violates residents' rights can be ordered to pay attorney's fees and costs.
Usually two years from discovery (735 ILCS 5/13-202). Wrongful death claims have their own rules.
If they're unsafe, yes. Moving them won't hurt a claim.
Scott DeSalvo founded DeSalvo Law to help injured people throughout Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Licensed to practice law in Illinois since 1998, IARDC #6244452, Scott has represented over 3,000 clients in personal injury, workers compensation, and accident cases.
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