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Nursing Home Negligence
- Pressure sores occur far more often in African-Americans than any other racial or ethnic group in nursing homes in Kingston, New York
- Top 3 steps you can take to avoid pressure sores in a nursing home or hospital in Kingston, New York
- Beware of the dangers of bed rails in your Kingston, New York nursing home
- What you can do to prevent your loved one from having an unintended weight loss in a nursing home
- What you need to know today to protect the rights of your family member in a nursing home in Kingston, New York
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$263,678 recovered for victim of pressure sores in Ulster County
A 75 year old hospital patient recovered $263,678 for three months of suffering from Stage Four pressure sores on her sacrum over the course of three months in a Ulster County hospital and nursing home.
The 75 year old was admitted to the Ulster County hospital for an elective hip replacement operation. A one-week hospital admission and a two week stint in a rehabilitation facility was planned. On day seven of the hospital admission, a stage four pressure sore was discovered on the patient's sacrum (the area just above the buttocks). The stage four pressure sore was treated with multiple surgical debridements (surgical removal of the dead tissue surrounding the pressure sore), but nothing worked.
The unfortunate part of the lawsuit was that pressure sore was totally preventable. The Ulster County hospital did not turn and position the patient for three days, as the hospital protocol required for patients classified as high risk for pressure sores. Making matters worse, the hospital nursing staff did not conduct skin inspections to assess the patient's skin in the area of her sacrum and as a result, the staff did not discover the pressure sore until it had progressed deep below the patient's epidermis (uppermost level of skin). After three months of hospital and rehabilitation treatment, the decedent died at home.
As a condition of the settlement, the decedent's surviving daughter insisted that the malpractice liability insurers provide funding for a nursing scholarship for graduates of the nursing program at BOCES in Ulster County as a living testament to her mother. The nursing scholarship will help nursing graduates learn from the neglect and oversight of the Ulster County hospital and rehabilitation facility.
Kudos to the patient's family for insisting upon the nursing scholarship that will help others learn from mistakes of the hospital and rehabilitation facility.
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John H. Fisher
130 North Front Street
Kingston, New York 12402-3058
Phone: 518.265.9131
Fax: 845-331-2004
Toll Free: 866.889.6882