Nurse suspended after 3 suspicious deaths at nursing home
SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. ? A nurse has been suspended following three suspicious deaths at an area nursing home.
The Cook County medical examiner?s office has determined one of those deaths was a homicide.
Police are now investigating whether the other two deaths were caused by a lethal dose of pain killers.
98-year-old Dorothy Byrd died the day after six residents of Holland Home were hospitalized Feb. 3 for unknown causes. Two other residents among those six who were hospitalized died earlier this month.
Medical examiner?s spokesman Frank Shuftan says Byrd?s death was caused by morphine and hydrocodone toxicity, combined with hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
South Holland Police Lt. Shawn Staples says investigators learned about a week ago that 88-year-old Robert Rundin and 98-year-old Leon Krynicki had also died. Shuftan says further tests are needed to determine the cause of their deaths.
Villa Healthcare manages Holland Home. COO David Mills said Holland Home is cooperating with authorities. He sent WGN the following statement: ?We?re continuing to cooperate closely with local law enforcement?s ongoing investigation and are referring all questions to them until that?s concluded. Our own internal investigation is also ongoing, consistent with our commitment to provide quality resident care.?
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