MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. $______ RECOVERY

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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Nursing Home
$125,000 RECOVERY
Medical malpractice – Nursing home negligence –
Plaintiff’s decedent sustains several falls while
under care of defendant nursing home facility –
Acute/subacute left lateral subdural hematoma
with mass effect and compression of left lateral
ventricle – Confusion – Hallucinations – Surgery
required.
Bucks County, PA
In this medical malpractice action, the plaintiff’s
decedent sustained injuries after sustaining
several falls at his nursing home care facility. The
defendants generally denied negligence.
On September 17, 2015, the plaintiff’s decedent was
admitted to the defendant nursing home facility, lo-
cated at 1480 Oxford Valley Rd in Yardley, after sus-
taining a fall in his home. While a patient at the
facility, the plaintiff’s decedent was noted to be a fall
risk, and required assistance and supervision for activ-
ities of daily living including bed mobility, bed trans-
fers,toileting,andambulation.Fromthe
aforementioned date until October 13, 2015, the
plaintiff’s decedent sustained 6 falls while under the
care of the defendant nursing home, causing him to
sustain injuries to his head.
The plaintiffs maintained that the defendant nursing
home was negligent in failing to properly supervise,
monitor, and assist the plaintiff’s decedent during his
residency at the nursing home, failing to add a fall
alarm to the plaintiff’s decedent’s care plan, failing to
respond to the plaintiff’s decedent’s worsening condi-
tion after several falls on the premises, failure to pur-
chase and provide the plaintiff’s decedent with
adequate safety devices to prevent him from falling,
and failing to perform the necessary routine checks
on the plaintiff’s decedent in order to prevent him
from falling. Consequently, after his sixth fall, the
plaintiff’s decedent sustained injuries, including an
acute/subacute left lateral subdural hematoma with
mass effect and compression of the left lateral ventri-
cle, confusion, and hallucinations. The plaintiff’s de-
cedent’s injuries required surgery, including the
draining of a subdural hematoma which required the
drilling of 2 burr holes into the skull.
The parties entered into a settlement for $125,000.
REFERENCE
Danielle Duffy, Co-Executrix of the Estate of Raymond
Marett vs. Manor Care of Yardley, PA, LLC d/b/a
Manor Care Health Services - Oxford Valley. Case no.
2017-05289, 02-19-19.
Attorney for plaintiff: Thomas J. Profy, IV of Begley,
Carlin & Mandio, LLP in Langhorne, PA.
$75,000 RECOVERY
Medical malpractice – Nursing home negligence –
Defendant facility fails to prevent patient’s
pressure ulcer resulting in decline in health and
subsequent death – Failure to implement proper
pressure ulcer prevention plan – Wrongful death.
Montgomery County, PA
In this action for medical malpractice, the
plaintiff’s decedent was under the defendant’s
care following a hip fracture. While in the
defendant’s care, the decedent developed a
pressure ulcer which was allowed to deteriorate
causing a decline in the decedent’s health which
resulted in her death. The defendant facility
denied all allegations of negligence and injury.
In late June of 2015, the plaintiff’s decedent sus-
tained a fall at her home and was taken to a local
hospital where she was diagnosed and treated for a
broken hip. She was transferred to the defendant fa-
cility on June 26, 2016, where she remained until
June 30th. During this time, the decedent developed
a sacral pressure ulcer.
The defendant failed to properly prevent and treat
the ulcer and it worsened causing a decline in the
plaintiff’s health resulting in her death on October 22,
2015. The estate alleged that the defendant facility
was negligent in failing to turn, reposition or rotate the
plaintiff’s decedent, failing to off load the plaintiff’s
decedent every 2 hours according to standards, fail-
ing to provide proper wound care, and failing to im-
plement a proper care plan. The defendant facility
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