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Wrongful death suit settled in Arkansas
LTC Liability Monitor, October 27, 2004
The family of a 91-year-old woman who died as a result of wrong medication is set to receive $25,000 from the agency in charge of the Arkansas nursing home where she resided, reported the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
For three days Martha Willis's Reminyl was accidentally replaced with Amaryl, a medication used to lower blood sugar. Hers was one of five deaths in eleven months at the state-owned Arkansas Health Center connected to poor practices or staff error.
The home was at risk of losing its federal funding but has since managed to come into compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services standards. According to the Gazette, the facility closed its in-house pharmacy after three of its four pharmacists resigned in 2003. The pharmacist who filled the prescription is scheduled to begin trial for adult abuse and negligent homicide on Nov. 16.
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