Elgin Mental Health Center Resident Dies: Homicide By Negligence
November 18, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Tammy Lewis may have recently received some good news, but Virdia Spain and Iluminada Tuzon most certainly have not.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Spain and Tuzon, employees of the Elgin Mental Health Center in Illinois, have each been “charged with a felony count of abuse of a long-term health-care facility resident” after a coroner’s jury ruled former patient Howard Morris’s death was “homicide by negligence.” (Hmm…seems like the felony charge should be, I don’t know, something related to “homicide by negligence” and not “abuse,” but, what do I know?)
Anyway, the story is that Morris was allergic to fish, but he …read more




