Our Recent Cases

An elderly patient was admitted to a Central Virginia nursing home after hospitalization for respiratory difficulties she suffered at home. On admission, her blood pressure was noted to be high. She was prescribed two anti-hypertensive medications to reduce her blood pressure,…

A 94-year-old nursing home patient fell from her geriatric chair to the floor. As a result of the fall, she sustained subarachnoid hemorrhages, a compression fracture to a vertebrae in her neck, and a compression fracture to a vertebrae in…

An elderly patient of a Roanoke area hospital was allowed to fall from her hospital bed.  She was found by a nurse “face down” in the floor in a large pool of blood.  The fall was unwitnessed and occurred when…

We recently settled a lawsuit involving a 75-year-old nursing home patient who was hospitalized after staff at the nursing home observed that he had diminished bowel sounds, a swollen abdomen, and abdominal discomfort.  Once at the hospital, he was diagnosed with a ruptured bowel, peritonitis (infection of the…

We settled earlier today a case involving a 73-year old patient of a Roanoke area nursing home who was involved in an unwitnessed fall after she left her bed and attempted to walk to her wheelchair.  The fall resulted in an open comminuted trimalleolar fracture of…

I just finished a jury trial in Christiansburg, Virginia, which is just outside of Blacksburg and Roanoke, against the owners and operators of a Blacksburg nursing home.  The case involved a 91-year-old nursing home patient who was allowed to fall from her…

A Richmond nursing home patient was allowed to develop stage IV pressure ulcers (bed sores, pressure sores, decubitus ulcers) on his sacrum (low back) andheel.  He also experienced an unplanned loss of 41 pounds of weight in 65 days during his two and one-half month stay at the…

A demented patient of a Central Virginia nursing home sustained a hand injury when staff began transferring her from a gerichair with an exposed metal tab beneath the chair’s arm rest.  When the patient was lifted from the chair with a mechanical lift,…

A 70 year-old female patient developed severe pressure ulcers (bed sores, pressure sores, decubitus ulcers) on her left hip and thigh during a several-month stay at a Roanoke area nursing home.  The ulcers were 15 cm x 10 cm and 25 cm x 15…

A nursing home patient died days after his PEG feeding tube became dislodged at the facility and was replaced by a nurse who didn’t first confirm proper placement.  Instead of being placed back into the stomach, the PEG tube was inserted into the patient’s peritoneal cavity. …