A Philadelphia nursing home has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a 73 year old man who developed multiple bedsores during a three week stay at the NE Philadelphia nursing facility. The lawsuit alleged that the bedsores were caused by the nursing staff’s failure to monitor and rotate …
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Swartz Culleton obtained a $150,000 settlement for a Bucks County woman whose husband developed a Stage IV sacral bedsore during medical treatment for a fracture caused by a fall at home. The bedsore required surgery to remove dead tissue and took three months to heal. The husband died of unrelated causes after suit was filed. …
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A nursing home has paid $375,000 to settle claims by a former resident that poor wound care led to his below the knee amputation. The man, a diabetic and smoker, was in the nursing home for post-op care following a left leg artery bypass operation to treat a circulatory condition called peripheral vascular disease. That …
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