Prior to being admitted, she was active and relatively healthy. After moving into the nursing home, according to the complaint, her health “rapidly declined”.
Five years after complications from a broken hip took the life of their mother, a Missouri (MO) family won a 1.5 million wrongful death jury award against the nursing home where the woman had been a patient. Evidence presented at trial showed that even though the patient was identified as being at extreme risk for…
Nearly all nursing home facility staff failed to meet federal requirements for resident assessments or care plans for residents taking atypical antipsychotics.
What Happened: A resident at Red Wing Health Center, a for-profit nursing home facility, suffered from dementia and had a history of serious falls at the nursing home facility. The resident had a care plan which specifically mentioned the need for a special wheelchair with a chair alarm and lap belt, to help prevent future…
Ronald Corn visited his mother twice a week at the Sunrise Sterling Canyon Assisted Living Center in Valencia, California (CA). His mother, Loretta Hooker, moved into the Los Angeles County nursing home in 2007 after developing mild dementia. Her dementia got worse, and she was moved in 2010 to a section of the facility with…