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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.

A patient who was blind and an amputee was being transported by the defendant hospital’s medical transport vehicle. During the transport, the transport driver without warning slammed on the brakes and came to an abrupt stop. The patient, who was not properly secured in the back of the transport vehicle, was thrown to the floor of the transport from her wheelchair.

An elderly female nursing home patient was, on admission to the nursing home, a high fall risk. After admission of the nursing home, the patient had been permitted to fall on no less than ten separate occasions. As a result of the tenth fall, the patient sustained a right hip fracture, for which surgery was required.

We recently obtained an excellent settlement in the case of an elderly female patient of a Northern Virginia nursing home who was permitted to fall on multiple occasions.  As a result of the falls, the patient sustained an intertrochanteric fracture of the right hip and a comminuted…

A Roanoke area nursing home permitted a patient to fall and sustain a right intertrochanteric hip fracture, for which surgery was required.  On admission to the facility, the patient was a fall risk.  She had fallen at the facility eight times before the fall that fractured…

A Central Virginia assisted living facility operated a locked dementia unit as a “safe secure environment” for patients with serious cognitive impairments due to a primary psychiatric diagnosis of dementia who could not recognize danger or protect their own safety and welfare.   A female patient (Patient No. 1)…