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Medical Records Suspicious? Talk to a Cleveland Nursing Home Injury Lawyer

As any nursing home injury lawyer in Cleveland can tell you, a nursing home’s medical records can’t always be taken at face value. If the staff has something to hide, their documents may have been forged, altered or otherwise not true.

In Chicago, two social workers claimed they were fired because they refused to falsify medical records related to incidents of nursing home patient abuse at the former Burnham Healthcare, now known as Bria of River Oaks.

“There was no structure. It was dangerous,” one of the social workers, Kenneth Allen, told the Chicago Tribune.

Documents Missing or Falsified?

Allen alleges that when he documented a resident’s rape complaint, a supervisor ripped the report from the medical file and tore it up.

Allen also claims he was told to falsify another patient’s medical report to look like she had fallen, when she very well may have been assaulted.

State investigations, meanwhile, indicate that the facility indeed had committed several instances of abuse.

From the Chicago Tribune:

“A 2012 state inspection report said two residents alleged guards beat or roughed them up in separate incidents. The report says that at least one guard at the home was fired as a result.

State inspectors have cited the facility for abuse-related incidents after Ogunyipe and Allen were terminated.”

So if your family member references abuse or injuries not mentioned in their medical file, don’t just take the word of the facility. Talk to a Cleveland nursing home injury lawyer. There may be abuse which needs investigating.