Posted On: November 14, 2007
BLOG EXTRA: Shocking Case Of Nursing Home Neglect And Abuse
A Louisiana jury awarded $1 million to the family of an 84-year-old man who died in a nursing home in what has to be one of the worst cases of neglect, according to an article in The Daily Comet newspaper. The family of Leon Nelms had filed a nursing home neglect and medical malpractice lawsuit against Olive Branch Senior Care. The complaint stated that Nelms died of complications from infected sores, weight loss, malnutrition and dehydration. In fact, one of his sores was so advanced that it went all the way to his bone and was infected with his own feces! Nursing home administrators, of course, declined comment.
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