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A 72-year-old female was admitted as a patient to a nursing home. On admission, the patient was a high fall risk. Within months of admission, the nursing home permitted the patient to fall in the bathroom, where she had been left by an aide without proper supervision.

An 83-year-old female patient was assaulted at a nursing home by another patient, whom the nursing home knew posed a danger to all other patients at the nursing home. The offending patient pushed our client to the floor and caused her to sustain left and right pelvis fractures. As a result of the assault and fractures, the patient became less mobile, was more dependent with activities of daily living, and required physical therapy and narcotic pain medications.

A 62-year-old patient was transferred from a hospital to a nursing home with diagnoses of altered mental status, dementia, inability to make his own medical decisions and propensity to wander. The nursing home knew the patient needed 24-hour supervision and could not leave the facility without supervision and assistance. Unbeknownst to the patient’s family, the nursing home allowed him to wander from the facility three times in one day.

A 79 year old male patient was admitted to a nursing home. At the time of his admission, he was totally dependent on the nursing home’s staff for all activities of daily living. The patient did not have any pressure ulcers when he was admitted.  Nursing home staff permitted the patient to develop a pressure ulcer on his sacrum and permitted the pressure ulcer to deteriorate.

Months after being admitted to a nursing home, a 91 year old female patient was permitted to develop a pressure ulcer over her right hip. The pressure ulcer was noted to have “green” discharge. Weeks later, the pressure ulcer was open and demonstrated purulent discharge.

A 66 year old nursing home patient called for nursing staff to assist her to the restroom, but staff did not respond. When the patient attempted to reach the restroom on her own. Her bed alarm sounded, but staff still did not respond.

An 84 year old nursing home patient was allowed by the nursing home to fall several times. As a result of the first of her falls at the nursing home, she sustained a left hip fracture. The hip fracture required surgery. Thereafter, she was placed on transfer and mobility restrictions and experienced significant pain.  She later required surgery to remove retained hardware from the site of the surgery due to continuing pain and was placed on weight bearing restrictions.  As a resu…

An elderly female patient who was a known fall risk was admitted to Avante at Lynchburg, a nursing home in Lynchburg, Virginia.  Just days into her stay, the nursing home permitted her to fall from her wheelchair while being assisted by a CNA.  After the fall, the patient was taken to a local hospital, where she was diagnosed with an oblique left femoral fracture with significant displacement.

A female patient was admitted to the nursing home for short term rehabilitation. While at the nursing home, the patient began experiencing loose stools and diarrhea daily. She also experienced confusion, drowsiness, nausea, light headedness, low blood pressure, weakness, fever, lethargy, and incontinence.

Virginia Crouse, 84 years old, was admitted to Stanleytown Health Care Center in January 2009. On admission, she was known by the defendants to be a high fall risk due to a prior stroke, dementia, weakness, poor safety awareness, balance issues, the need for extensive assistance during transfers, prior hip fracture with surgery, impaired memory loss, and disorientation, among other medical conditions and limitations. Within two weeks of her admission to the facility, the patient sustained a left…