Family Settles Bed Sore Lawsuit Against Troubled Nursing Home
Evergreen Health Care Center which nearly had its license revoked in 2010 by the state for repeated violations of patient neglect, says troubled past is behind it.
With her last dying breath, the last word to pass through Samuel Lee Beard’s lips was “home.” By her family’s accounts, the final months of the 77-year-old stroke patient’s life while a resident at Evergreen Health Care Center, a nursing home and rehabilitation with a spotty regulatory history, were pure hell. Connect to Patch: Evergreen Park / Oak Lawn / Beverly-Mt. Greenwood Completely immobilized by a stroke, Beard’s skin was eaten by bed sores when she died in May 2007. The woman’s granddaughter, Vania Beard, maintained the sores were the result of not being turned properly while in the care of the Evergreen Park nursing home. Last month, Beard’s granddaughter reached a $575,000 settlement with the owners-–Evergreen Health Care Center …
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MsBach
2:15 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Patient to staff ratios are put in place to protect the patient and the caregiver. Sure, CNA's know that their job entails cleaning people up, of course we know that is "what we are getting ourselves into" but we do not sign up for an unsafe ratio of patients to caregivers. more ›