Affiliate: Planned Parenthood of Illinois
Locations: 6. Covered here: 6. (Chicago Wicker Park closed in 2024)
Patients who feel a need to file a complaint:
Illinois Department of Public Health: Health Care Regulation – File a Complaint
Entire City
Reaves
We list this under the entire city because documents aren’t consistent as to whether events occurred at Loop or Near North.
Legal Documents:
Death Reaves Settlement ($2 million)
Excerpt from Autopsy:
OPINION: The cause of death of this 24-year-old, Black female . . . is due to hemorrhage resulting from cervical dilation and evacuation due to an intrauterine pregnancy.
Report from Channel 2 CBS Chicago:
Family Seeks Answers After Woman’s Death Following Abortion
July 21, 2012
Excerpt:
Tonya Reaves, 24, died late Friday night from a hemorrhage, with a cervical dilation and evacuation, as well as an intrauterine pregnancy as contributing causes, according to the medical examiner’s office.
She died after she’d had an abortion at Planned Parenthood at 18 S. Michigan Av, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Her death was ruled an accident, but the Reaves family wants to know more, especially Tonya’s twin sister Toni.
“We were born the same day. She was my other half,” Toni said.
Toni Reaves said the family is trying to get through this.
“It happened so fast. She was just fine one day and then the next day she was gone. We’re just trying to figure out what happened. what happened,” she said.
Toni Reaves said her sister was engaged to be married and had one son – Alvin – who just had his first birthday.
Indeed.com Planned Parenthood Employee Reviews for Chicago, IL
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Letter from HHS/OCR responding to complaint
Excerpt:
On October 9, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Region III received your complaint alleging Planned Parenthood . . . has violated the Federal Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information . . . Specifically, you allege that, an employee of Planned Parenthood impermissibly disclosed your protected health information (PHI) to a third party. You stated that, on September 25, 2013, [redacted] left a comment under the public posts of your Facebook page pertaining to a procedure you had done at Planned Parenthood.
Chicago
Austin
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Chicago
Englewood
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Chicago
Loop
The Better Business Bureau webpage lists this center under “did not disclose” and states: “This charitable organization either has not responded to written BBB requests for information or has declined to be evaluated in relation to BBB Standards for Charity Accountability.”
Harkless
Employee Harkless Court Complaint
Employee Harkless Planned Parenthood’s Response
Headings for Allegations of Complaint:
B. [Planned Parenthood of Illinois] PPIL’s Failure to Notify Plaintiff of Her Rights Under the [Family and Medical Leave Act] After Notification of Her Serious Health Conditions
C. Violations of the Confidentiality of Plaintiff’s Medical Records by Defendants PPIL and Tao
D. Defendant Tao’s Inappropriate and Discriminatory Comments and Behavior Toward Plaintiff and Other PPIL Employees
E. PPIL Had Notice of Defendant Tao’s Discriminatory Behavior and Comments
F. Plaintiff’s Termination and PPIL’s Changing Reasons Given to Support It
G. Defendant PPIL’s Intimidation of a Witness Who Did Not Support Its Defense for Terminating Plaintiff
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Near North Elizabeth Cohn Morris Health Center
Malpractice Castro Court Complaint
(The ambulance call recording for this date is in the list of ambulance call videos below – May 24, 2018).
Excerpts:
- On May 24, 2018, [Plaintiff] was present at Planned Parenthood, 1200 North LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois, for the implantation of intrauterine contraception (“IUC”) . . .
- . . . before the IUC procedure, a Planned Parenthood healthcare professional told [Plaintiff] that she may experience side-effects from the procedure, including, but not limited to, dizziness and cramping.
- . . . shortly after the insertion of the IUC, [Plaintiff] experienced dizziness and informed the Planned Parenthood healthcare professional present at the time of the dizziness.
- . . . following her complaints of dizziness [Plaintiff] was left alone and unmonitored.
- . . . while unmonitored, [Plaintiff] lost consciousness and fell off the table to the ground, striking her head and neck area, and resulting in a broken neck.
Chicago Illinois Incidents January 1, 2016- February 1, 2017
Notes:
There was a Freedom of Information request for all incidents at specified Chicago Planned Parenthood locations on the specified dates, and this government document was the response. We select those designated Type EMS – Emergency Medical Services, meaning an ambulance was called. The document includes reports at the Near North address for these dates:
February 10, 2016
March 23, 2016
April 7, 2016
April 25, 2016
May 21, 2016 (near the end)
June 16, 2016
August 29, 2016
November 1, 2016
There is also one at the Loop center listed as being a male with a peanut allergy without the needed counteractive, and one at the Austin center where the type of call is redacted.
November 1, 2016
The paper report for this one is included in the pdf-linked document above.
October 4, 2017
November 16, 2017
May 24, 2018
This is the ambulance call associated with the Castro malpractice suit, documents above,
July 5, 2018
July 27, 2018
September 5, 2018
September 11, 2018
October 6, 2018
February 23, 2019
March 21, 2019
October 30, 2019
November 19, 2019
April 22, 2020
July 10, 2020
July 15, 2021
Note to help understand the content: a uterine perforation is potentially an infertility and life-threatening condition.
January 20, 2023
January 25, 2023
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Chicago
Rogers Park
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Chicago
Roseland
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