ABUSE AND NEGLECT AT LOCAL CHILDREN'S NURSING HOME
An investigation by the Chicago Tribune revealed a decade of abuse and neglect at Alden Village North, a nursing home on Chicago’s North Side that cares for children with severe mental and physical disabilities.
The report brought to light the deaths of 13 disabled children over the last 10 years, including a nine-year-old boy who died from an infection and bowel obstruction after staff failed to properly care for his g-tube and failed to notice a change in his condition.
The report also exposed life-support alarms that failed to go off or went undetected and a troubling disregard for basic hygiene needs, such as baths or diaper changes.
Records showed that lawmakers allowed the problems to worsen by dropping or reducing fines and failing to fully investigate deaths that occurred at the facility.