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Pressure sores result in $10M judgment
LTC Liability Monitor, March 18, 2004
Negligence and poor care cost Atlanta-based Mariner Post-Acute Network, Inc., $10 million, reported the [Jackson, MS] Clarion-Ledger. A jury ruled Mariner, parent company of Clinton [MS] Health & Rehabilitation Center, must pay $2 million in compensatory damages and $8 million in punitive damages to the family of a resident whose leg was amputated during her stay at the facility.
The family's attorneys argued nursing home staff failed to turn the resident properly, which caused pressure sores that led to the amputation. Additionally, the family claimed the resident was left to lie in her own waste, and that staff falsified records of her care, reported the Ledger.
Mariner plans to appeal the verdict, saying the resident's leg was amputated due to several serious health problems, not lack of care.
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