Nursing Home Death

$425,000

Another case involved an elderly woman who was bedridden with no mobility. She required frequent turning and repositioning. However, this was not done as often as required by standards, rules and nursing home federal nursing guidelines. When family members uncovered the sheets when she was moaning and complaining, they discovered a very deep Stage IV pressure sore or ulcer, commonly known as a bed sore. She was transferred to a hospital and the wound debrided, but infection had already set in. Despite IV antibiotics, the sepsis evolved quickly into deadly septicemia which spread through her body and killed her. The suit was settled once the self-insured giant nursing home chain saw the color pictures of the deep wound on the decedent’s buttocks.