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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Suit accuses nursing home operator of intentional understaffing

Alden Town Manor nursing home, 6120 W. Ogden Ave. in Cicero is one of the six facilities named in a lawsuit alleging the nursing home operator understaffed facilities, endangering residents. (Sun-Times file)

Residents of several Alden nursing homes in the city and suburbs filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the company of endangering residents by understaffing facilities, leading to illness and injury.

“For many years Alden has engaged in an ongoing practice of profiting from systematically and knowingly understaffing the Alden facilities, causing dangerous, distressing, and grossly unsanitary living conditions for thousands of residents,” the suit claims.

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