Lovera Staples' Children Sue Ridgeview Nursing Home

Lovera Staples' Children Sue Ridgeview Nursing Home


By Erline Aguiluz on April 25, 2011 12:15 PM

Chicago resident Mary Staples and two of her siblings have filed a lawsuit against Ridgeview Nursing Home in the city's North Side and accused the facility of negligence after it allegedly failed to inform them about their mother's death in May 2010.

The three family members claimed Ridgeview did not notify them about Lovera Staples' death until Mary called four months later to wish her mother a happy birthday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The family contends they had suffered emotional distress from the incident and seek over $50,000 in damages from the nursing home.

The suit, which was filed in Cook County Circuit Court, said Mary last visited Staples at Ridgeview on April 25, 2010. Two days later, her mother was admitted to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, and Mary came to see her again on April 29, 2010. The next day, a nursing employee notified Mary that Staples had returned to the facility after getting released from the hospital.

More than four months after Lovera Staples died, a Ridgeview employee told Mary no one by her mother’s name resided at the nursing home when she called to greet her mother on September 11, 2010. An administrator eventually notified Mary and her two brothers, Roy and Sylvester Staples, that their mother had passed away when the three came to the hospital two days after Mary’s phone call.

The siblings found out that the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office had kept Staples’ body since May. On September 14, 2010, they learned the Cook County Department of Health had buried their mother’s body without their consent and were told that Ridgeview Nursing Home had authorized Staples’ removal from the county morgue


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Editor's note:  Kids; If the above article is correct, how come none of you called to check on Mom's condition and welfare in 4 months? The nursing home was sure neglectful in not calling in 4 months and should be punished... but still...  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com