In July 2010, I was assaulted by a person unknown to me while I was walking down the street. I suffered multiple broken bones and was hospitalized. I chose to be admitted to the Mid America Care Center because several members of my church were living or had at one time lived at the Mid America Care Center. After rehabbing my arm, I stayed at the Mid America Care Center for about a month and a half. Around the 1st week of August of 2011, I was working for a customer of mine and was removing broken or dead tree limbs from the roof of his house. The ladder I was using was leaning against a tree limb that broke away. I fell about 20 feet to the ground and fractured 2 vertebrae in my back and the tree branch that broke hit me in my mouth and knocked out the upper part of my teeth. I was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where I was hospitalized for a little over a week. I began my therapy in the hospital and had to decide where I was going to continue my therapy. As I was ending my stay in the Illinois Masonic Medical Center, the hospital staff told me they would be sending me to a rehabilitation facility to continue my therapy. I knew based on my previous experience that I wanted to continue my therapy at the Mid America Care Center. On August 13, 2011 I was admitted to the Mid America Care Center. While staying at the Mid America Care Center, I found the nurses to be extremely helpful and explained numerous things to me that I found very useful. On one specific occasion I was having difficulty with back pain. My nurses discussed my situation with my doctor and found pain medication that was more effective than what I had been taking. The therapy team worked very hard to get me back to my highest level of functioning. They were patient with me and provided positive reinforcement. I also found the nursing assistants are very polite and caring, not just to myself, but also the other residents I witnessed them taking care of. After staying at the Mid America Care Center for about two months, I
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