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Chicago Alden Nursing Home Understaffing Lawsuit: What the Judge’s Ruling Means for Your Family If your mother, father, or grandmother lived in an Alden nursing home in the Chicago area, you probably noticed things that did not make sense. The call light that stayed on for twenty minutes. The meal that arrived cold or did not arrive at all. The bedsore that appeared from nowhere and kept getting worse. The sense that there were never enough people on the floor — and the ones who were there looked exhausted, half the time they were new faces who did not know your loved one’s name. You may have told yourself it was just how nursing homes are. It is not. A Cook County judge has just cleared a class action lawsuit to proceed to trial against the operator of Alden nursing homes across the Chicago area, ruling that the plaintiffs’ core legal theory — that the company systematically understaffed its facilities to increase profits at the expense of resident safety — is serious enough to put before a jury. That ruling means the people who own and run these homes can now be questioned under oath. Their emails, their budget memos,…