Legal Rights of Nursing Home Residents

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Understand the Rights of Nursing Home Residents

The residents of nursing homes have the right to receive proper care from the members of the nursing home, choose the treatment they want, and be informed about sources of financial assistance. 

 If you've been denied any of these rights, and suffered serious injuries as a result, nursing home residents, or his or her representatives, on their behalf, can file a lawsuit under the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. Trust Graves Law Office to handle every aspect of your case.

Rights Under the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act

  • The right to complain
  • The right to their own clothing and personal property, and adequate storage space for the same
  • The right to choose their own doctor
  • The right to be informed of potential consequences of medical treatment and to refuse the same
  • The right to examine their medical records
  • The right to have their appointed caregiver examine their medical records
  • The right to manage their own finances
  • The right to be free of physical restraints, or to agree to the same if medically warranted
  • The right to freedom of communication
  • The right to freedom of religion

Did you put your loved one in a nursing home facility, trusting the facility to provide proper care as they promised, and your trust was betrayed? Did this betrayal result in your loved one suffering serious injury or a painful, unnecessary death?  If so, Graves Law Office will fight for you and your loved one in order to seek justice as the law requires. Call for a free consultation.

Trust Our Attorneys to Fight for Your Nursing Home Rights

Call us for a free consultation today!

(217) 544-1780

(217) 544-1780