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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The family lost their relative in a horrible excruciating manner of death. If there are no consequences it will happen over and over again. While it isn’t always about monetary loss the only way to make a business pay for their horrendous mistake is to hurt them financially. You can’t put a nursing home in jail but you can make them think about having to pay a huge award again in the future.
Whether you 9 or 99 pain is pain, suffering is suffering and when you pay $1000.00 a week for care pain and suffering like she went through is unacceptable. Someone should pay.
They always had to take a smoke break
I had a few family member that died in ICU my question is how does one in a coma mode get bruises and cuts when I visited them most of the time the nurses were yacking in the main room.
Los Angeles
The lawsuit also serves to make sure other homes don't act this negligently. The family also had pain and suffering. And the woman may have had a long-term care policy, or investments to pay her way and leave some for her descendants.
I was baiting you to say “talkin’ ‘bout my generation.”
But I wasn’t. 97 years old would be my parents’ generation.
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