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Associated Press (AP) Reporter Mark Carlson in Chicago:
"All Faith Pavilion on the South Side of Chicago was supposed to be a place where 77-year old Ivory Jackson was going to spend the rest of his life as an Alzheimer's patient."
Russell Smith, Ivory Jackson's Stepson:
"I put my father in the nursing home under the assumption he was going to get the love and care that he needed."
AP Reporter: "Russell Smith could no longer take care of his stepfather, so he put him in a nursing home. But no one predicted Jackson would die so soon, in such a violent way."
Mr. Smith: "My understanding is this. My father was placed in a room with an individual after he had returned back to the facility. This person that he was in the room with assaulted him early in the morning with a clock. He inflicted massive wounds and damage to my father around the facial area, brain area and so forth."
AP Reporter: "Jackson died from his injuries less than a month later. His roommate, the man who was accused of killing Jackson, was 50 years-old, and had a history of aggression and quote, "Altered Mental Status", end-quote, according to the State Nursing Home Inspector's Report.
"The roommate plead "not-guilty" to first-degree muder
and after a psychiatric review was ruled unfit to stand trial and now lives in a State mental hospital."
Mr. and Mrs. Ivory Jackson
Mr. Smith: "If someone is violent, you don't want to put them in a room with a person who is less violent or who has less tendencies to perpertrate such tendencies. Why would you want to do that? You are unleashing this population on these people who are basically going to feed on them. Not because they want to do that, but because their defects and illness makes them go and do those kinds of things."
AP Reporter: "Nationwide research done by the Associated Press shows that nearly 125,000 young and middle-aged adults with serious mental illness lived in U.S. nursing homes last year. That's a 41% increase from 2002. Spokespeople for the nursing home industry say safety is a top prioiry when accepting new residents."
Robert Van Dyk, American Health Care Association
"Above and beyond anything, is safety and security of the residents and staff who are with us at the time. So if someone presents themselves and they are not appropriate for that setting, that would be someone who would not be admitted to a home."
AP Reporter: Smith says he was unaware of the kind of roommate his stepfather was living with, and is afraid more families are in the same kind of situation.
Mr. Smith: "And unless they tell you, you really don't know what is going on with the type of patients you room with. I think that most people, when they put a person in a nursing home, after they initially go there to do their own research and evaluation, assume everything is going to be OK."
AP Reporter: "All Faith Pavilion ownership says their staff is equipped to deal with aggressive behavior and disputes the State's findings that Jackson's roommate had a history of aggression.
"The nursing home was fined $32,500 for failing to prevent the assault.
"Mark Carlson, The Associated Press, Chicago."
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