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"My Injury Guy" Scott DeSalvo
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For many New Lenox families, the nursing home story begins in a hospital room. A parent has surgery, a stroke, or a bad fall, and the discharge planner says they need a few weeks of rehab before going home. Within days, they're in a skilled nursing facility, often chosen in a hurry.
That transition is one of the riskiest moments in an older person's care. Medications get changed. Fall risks and wound care instructions don't always make it from the hospital to the new facility. And short-staffed facilities may not notice when something goes wrong.
Here's something many families don't know: Illinois law lets residents, with the right consents, place an electronic monitoring device like a camera in their own room. For families worried about care, that can be a powerful tool.
I'm Scott DeSalvo, and I've handled serious injury cases for over 27 years. For other injury cases, see my New Lenox personal injury attorney page.
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When I was nine, my father, a truck driver and Teamster, was badly hurt at work. The people who were supposed to help him let him down for seventeen years.
Older adults in nursing homes often can't advocate for themselves. Their families need someone who will.
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When a patient moves from the hospital to rehab, the facility must reconcile medications, follow wound care orders, and assess fall risk. Mistakes during this handoff can lead to falls, infections, and medication errors.
The Illinois Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act (210 ILCS 32) lets residents install monitoring devices in their rooms, with notice to the facility and consent from any roommate. Recordings can become evidence.
Illinois' Nursing Home Care Act (210 ILCS 45) protects residents' rights to adequate care and freedom from abuse and neglect. A facility that violates the Act can be held responsible for damages and the family's attorney's fees.
Facilities that accept Medicare and Medicaid must also meet federal care standards, and their inspection results are public.
Bottom Line: The first few days after a hospital discharge are when many preventable injuries happen.
Falls by residents who were known fall risks but weren't properly supervised or assisted.
Bedsores that develop or worsen in rehab or long-term care.
Missed doses, wrong medications, and errors during the hospital-to-facility transition.
Untreated urinary tract infections, wound infections, and pneumonia that progress to sepsis.
Picture this. Your mother is discharged from the hospital to a rehab facility after a hip replacement, with clear instructions that she needs help to walk. Two nights later, she tries to get to the bathroom alone because no one answers her call light. She falls and breaks her other hip. That fall was predictable, and preventable.
Look, facilities and their insurers tend to use the same defenses:
Here's what most lawyers won't tell you: call-light records, staffing schedules, and electronic charting timestamps can show whether a resident was actually checked on. Facilities don't hand that over voluntarily.
Bottom Line: Electronic records often tell a different story than the paper chart.
Most nursing home cases settle. Facilities settle fairly when they know your lawyer is ready for 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 tried more than 30 jury trials.
Nothing up front. I advance the costs and take my fee only from what I recover. The Nursing Home Care Act may also require the facility to pay attorney's fees.
Find Out What YOUR Case Might Be Worth...for free.
Call for a free consultation. If you hire me, I gather the hospital discharge records, facility charts, call-light data, staffing records, and inspection reports, and have them reviewed by medical experts. Then I make a demand. If the facility won't settle fairly, I file suit in the Circuit Court of Will County.
Worried about a loved one in a New Lenox-area facility? Call 312-500-4500 any time.
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.
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Under the Illinois Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act (210 ILCS 32), a resident or their representative can install an electronic monitoring device in the resident's room. There are notice and consent requirements, including consent from any roommate. The facility can't retaliate against the resident for doing so.
Watch for new or worsening bedsores, falls, sudden confusion, dehydration, missed medications, and infections. Any significant decline in the first days or weeks after admission deserves questions.
Yes. Short-term rehab facilities are generally licensed under the same laws as long-term nursing homes, and residents have the same rights. Neglect in rehab can support a claim just like neglect in long-term care.
Usually two years from when the injury was discovered (735 ILCS 5/13-202). If neglect caused a death, wrongful death rules apply. Talk to a lawyer promptly.
Facilities are not allowed to retaliate against residents. If you're worried about your loved one's safety, moving them may be the right choice, and it won't hurt a legal 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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