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When a Nursing Home Calls It “Unavoidable” — What Pressure Ulcers Really Mean in Norridge and Elk Grove Village You found the sore during a visit. Or the hospital called to say your mother was transferred from the facility with wounds you never knew existed. Or someone at the home told you it was “just part of her condition” — that bedsores happen to people who can’t move themselves, that it’s the disease, not the care. That sentence is the one we hear more than any other, and it is the one we need to talk about first, because it is almost never true. What happened to a resident who developed multiple pressure ulcers in facilities in Norridge and Elk Grove Village is not an isolated story. A lawsuit filed in the Cook County Circuit Court — Case No. 18-L-4571 — alleged that Norridge Gardens LLC, ManorCare of Elk Grove Village, and other healthcare providers failed in pressure ulcer prevention, causing a resident to develop multiple pressure ulcers and suffer physical and mental health deterioration. We are not that resident’s lawyers. We were not hired in that case. But we handle cases like it, and we know exactly how they…