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Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM) Dean Bruce Rotter, DMD, MS, announced his retirement today, effective December 2021. Rotter .
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BELLEVILLE â A patient claims she suffered serious complications after laparoscopic surgery for GERD due to her physician s alleged negligence.
Veroncia Douglas filed a complaint May 12 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Kurt Sprunger, M.D., and Granite City Illinois Hospital Company LLC, doing business as Gateway Regional Medical Center, alleging medical Malpractice.
According to Douglas complaint, she underwent a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for GERD symptoms, which was performed by Sprunger on March 12, 2020. Douglas alleges that after the surgery, she suffered significant complications, including trouble swallowing, fever, nausea, shortness of breath and severe chest and abdominal pain. Douglas claims that on March 20, 2020, she was at Belleville Memorial Hospital for treatment of her complications. A CT scan allegedly showed that she had an intra-abdominal abscess and a build up of gas and fluid at her surgica
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BELLEVILLE A suit against a Monroe County nursing and rehab facility alleges a patient suffered numerous falls out of her wheelchair, gangrene and neglect, leading to her death.
Jeremiah Campbell, executor of the Estate of Diann M. Campbell, deceased, filed a complaint April 15 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Columbia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center LLC, doing business as Integrity Healthcare of Columbia, alleging neglect, negligence and wrongful death.
According to the plaintiff s complaint, Diann Campbell was admitted to Integrity on Sept. 4, 2017. The plaintiff alleges that on Sept. 10, 2019, and Sept. 13, 2019, Diann Campbell fell out of her wheelchair. Then on May 31, 2020, Campbell fell out of her wheelchair again while in the bathroom and struck her head. The plaintiff alleges that while a resident at Integrity, Diann Campbell had medical conditions on her left lower extremity that led