Posted on 01/27/2023 9:11:11 PM PST by Morgana
A family recently filed a lawsuit against an assisted living center in Louisville, Colorado, after a 97-year-old woman froze to death outside the facility last year.
Surveillance footage caught Mary Jo Staub wandering unsupervised outside the Balfour at Lavender Farms assisted-living facility, in below-freezing temperatures in the middle of the night in late February 2022, according to the complaint filed by the Staub family that was obtained by the Washington Post. She was wearing only pajamas, a robe, boots, and gloves while using a walker that night.
At some point, she injured her ankle and abandoned her walker before crawling back to the facility on her hands and knees, per the complaint. As she made her way to the doors in front of the nurse’s station, leaving a trail of blood, she started banging on the doors to be let in, but there was no response.
After an hour of being unable to get anyone’s attention, Staub collapsed. The lawsuit alleges that it took over five hours before a staff member found Staub outside.
According to the complaint, an autopsy determined that Staub died from hypothermia.
In the complaint, Staub’s family alleges that Balfour employees “fed lies and misleading statements” to investigators in order to avoid criminal charges. The family also listed several claims against the facility, including “felonious killing, negligence resulting in wrongful death and intentional infliction of emotional distress,” the Post reported, citing the complaint.
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While caring for my granny that was the number 1 complaint I had for the nurses we hired. They always had to take a smoke break and smelled like a freaking chimney.
If an assisted living facility does not have cameras and alarms on doors leading outside to prevent granny from escaping in the middle of the night, then they should be avoided at all costs.
CO ping.
And this is in Boulder County, so it’s not like this living facility was out in the middle of nowhere.
Sounds like a good place for Dr Fubar to retire
Usually not nurses,but patient care xxxx.
I worked for a place in Gaylord that had beeper like things carried by all the employees.
If a door was breached they let you know!
We once caught a woman, thanks to the alarm, on her way out with her pop and snacks.
Why they missed her is criminal. We did bed checks at night every hour.
May God bless her soul.
Really sad about this. And yeah those caregivers usually are young and smoke a lot.
Civil lawsuits are an extremely expensive, bureaucratic mechanism for recovering financial losses. It’s cold to ask, but what exactly are the family’s financial losses in this case? The family went from paying maybe $4,000 per month for the nursing home, to paying a similar monthly expense to a law firm. In America, living to age 97 is often an unnatural medical feat only multimillionaires can afford.
I hate nursing homes. My Mom was in one for a year before she passed.
One Easter Sunday my wife, our daughter (she was two at the time) and myself visited her. We walked to her room, the door was wide open, and she was laying there, naked as the day she was born for all the world to see. I covered her, and went looking for the nurse on duty and chewed her out. I was just about ready to deck her. Those people don’t care.
I’m just glad my daughter was too young to remember.
I hope I die before I get old.
where were the bed checks?....when I worked nights I would check every room all thru the night with my flashlight.
Yes they are but the companies running these facilities cut back on staff. Overworked under appreciated staff in care facilities is a recipe for disaster.
while this is bad, nursing homes are horrible (falsl are highe than at home) and in checking them out I visited some in off hours, during tour times they looked great, I snuck in and heard patients calling for help, being ignored and the night help over whelmed. Adn yes at one all the help was ona break at the same time.
People put their loved one in one, because it is easier and I get that. we are goign through tougm times now trying to keep mom at home but nursing homes almost always mean a quicker death and without loved ones around
My sister and her husband put his Mom in a nursing home and she died 2 days later, my sister believes they basically killed her.
I asked my sis for the name of the home and told her if I ever get so bad I have to go to one, send me there. Without quality of life it is not really living.
Something similar almost happened to my grams at one of the nursing homes she lived at. Gram was found wandering around outside the facility at night, but it wasn’t cold enough for her to freeze to death.
In any case, not a good look.
My parents, not the suing kind, merely chewed out the facility and moved gram elsewhere.
This should be a slam-dunk for plaintiff’s counsel. Maybe with enough proof adduced at the civil trial, criminal charges can be re-filed.
** They always had to take a smoke break and smelled like a freaking chimney. **
From what I hear, they’re always all related, too.
Things they do look awful c-c-cold.
I wish I knew what you’re talking about.
Post #10 from know.your.why was a line from the song “My Generation” by The Who, and mine was the preceding line. It seemed to apply.
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