The Virginia Supreme Court recently affirmed an $850,000 verdict obtained by Jeff Downey in a nursing home case in Danville, Virginia. The case, Musgrove v. Medical Facilities of America Inc., involved pressures sores, an amputation, and death by dehydration, malnutrition and wound complications. The Defendant asserted numerous assignments of error, many dealing with pertinent nursing home
The children of 94-year-old Alice Limbrick claim their mother’s legs had to be amputated because of negligent care during her stay at the Green Acres Parkdale nursing home. The trial of Roy Limbrick vs. Mariner Health Care Inc. (Green Acres) began Jan. 23. The defense will attempt to convince the jury that the amputating Alice Limbrick’s legs had
We have numerous cases where a resident suffered horrible painful pressure ulcers because of the lack of preventative treatment. The nursing homes always claim that the pressure ulcers were “unavoidable” due to the age of the resident. A new comprehensive study disproves that claim. This article discusses the purpose and success of preventing pressure ulcers
15. Treatment of Pressure Ulcers Treatment of Pressure Ulcers Clinical Guideline Number 15 AHCPR Publication No. 95-0652: December 1994 Foreword The incidence of pressure ulcers is sufficiently high, especially among certain high-risk groups, to warrant concern among health care providers. These groups include elderly patients admitted to the hospital for femoral fracture (66-percent incidence) and