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McHenry Nursing Home Neglect: The Alden Group Understaffing Lawsuit and What It Means for Your Family You noticed it before anyone told you to look. The call button that took twenty minutes to answer. The bruise on your mother’s arm that nobody could explain. The bedsore that appeared seemingly overnight. The fall that “just happened.” You asked questions and got polite answers that didn’t quite add up. You may have wondered if you were overreacting — if this is just what nursing homes are like, if expecting more is unrealistic. It isn’t. And you are not overreacting. A lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court alleges that what families across the Chicago area have been seeing inside Alden Group nursing homes is not a series of isolated accidents. It is, according to the complaint, a business decision — one that saved the company approximately $1.8 million a year at a single McHenry facility by staffing it with fewer than half the certified nursing assistants its residents needed and fewer registered nurses than the law requires. The lawsuit names six facilities and eleven residents. It describes people who fell down stairs while strapped to wheelchairs, a resident whose neck was fractured…