Nursing Home Abuse Case Results

$700,000

Client underwent a knee amputation and developed a pressure ulcer on his remaining foot due to the chronic understaffing at the nursing home facility. The pressure ulcer lead to a bone infection, requiring amputation of the remaining leg to stop the infection.

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Client lost a loved one because a nurse practitioner failed to send a patient with signs of internal bleeding to an emergency department, causing patient to bleed out at the nursing home facility.

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Client lost a loved one because a nursing home allowed the patient to fall eight times in eight weeks, resulting in fractures that caused the patient’s death.

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Client lost a loved one because a nursing home placed a patient in a broken bed, which caused the patient to fall from bed, suffer a head injury, and pass away days later.

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Client lost a loved one because hospital nursing staff did not check on a patient for an entire 12-hour night shift, during which time the patient decompensated due to liver failure and passed away.

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Client lost a loved one due to an assisted living facility’s failure to detect and respond to a respiratory infection that led to sepsis and death.