While hospitalized, a middle-aged male patient developed what was initially described by the hospital as a large bruised area on his buttock with no skin breakdown. Within one week thereafter, the hospital described the wound as a very large purple bruise on his coccyx (low back) and buttock area with sloughing. The patient also developed a large purple area over his left heel.

An elderly female was, at the time of admission to the assisted living facility, a high fall risk. She required stand-by assistance when bathing, dressing, using a walker, and when toileting. She also suffered from impaired balance and an unsteady gait.

A patient was hospitalized before admission to the defendant’s nursing home. During the hospitalization, the patient had a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastric) feeding tube put in place. The patient was discharged to the defendant’s nursing home after surgery within one week of the surgical feeding tube placement.

A female nursing home patient was permitted to fall when she was left alone in her bathroom without any supervision. As an immediate result of the fall, she sustained pain during transfer from floor to wheelchair and from wheelchair to bed, facial grimacing on movement, and external rotation of the left hip and leg. The patient was later diagnosed at a local hospital with a comminuted fracture of the left femur with angulation.

A female nursing home patient required staff assistance for turning, repositioning, and transfers. The nursing home’s staff attempted to transfer the patient by lifting the patient under her arms from behind the patient’s body. The force of the attempted transfer caused the patient to sustain a comminuted left arm fracture with complete separation of the fracture fragments.

An elderly female patient was admitted to a hospital for surgery following a hip fracture at home. On admission, the patient’s skin was intact and she had no pressure ulcers (also called pressure sores, bed sores, or decubitus ulcers). The patient was discharged from the hospital approximately one week later.