Posted on 09/26/2024 4:17:55 PM PDT by Morgana
An Ohio nursing home is at the center of a homicide investigation following the death of a 72-year-old resident.
Arbors of Ohio, which has multiple facilities in the state, is being accused of medically neglecting Lucy Garcia in the months before her death in July of this year.
Garcia had been a resident of their Oregon nursing home for years before her death, which was ruled a homicide from complications of a severe bed sore.
According to an autopsy report undertaken by the Lucas County Coroner, her death came about due to medical neglect.
The report said she had sustained the sore between May and June, with the Garcia family attorney describing it as a 'big open wound on her backside'.
Matthew Mooney, who is representing the bereaved family, told WTOL11 that Garcia was well loved by her family.
He said: 'They're devastated. Lucy was the matriarch of her family. She had a huge family.
'She had grandchildren, great-grandchildren. Four sons. And they're all devastated by her loss.
'They trusted the Arbors to take care of Lucy, they trusted the Arbors to provide for her, and the Arbors represented to them they could do just that. Clearly they couldn't.'
According to the coroner's office, the family had reported a decline in her health in the weeks leading up to her death.
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How often did members of the loving family actually visit her ???
Very seldom l,
one can imagine
"She had grandchildren, great-grandchildren. Four sons."
Aaaand none of them noticed anything odd? Or they didn't ever show up.
Not to take blame away from the facility, but come on, visit grandma once in a while, will ya'.
And sons don’t want to check their mother’s butt for bedsores.
Maybe the daughters in law or granddaughters could have done so.
Or maybe they trusted the staff to do proper assessment and prevention.
That’s why they put them there. No one wants to take on the responsibly of caring for them.
Even if they had not visited every day a bed sore is a common and preventable and treatable problem that is the responsibility of the nursing home staff. The family was probably told not to move her and that everything was fine.
IT IS BASIC CARE OF A BED BOUND PATIENT TO CHECK FOR SORES DAILY.
Blaming the family is just wrong.
Bingo
Our mother went into a county-run nursing home after a stroke. The facility was almost brand new, but it was run by typical lazy government union goons, so already looked and smelled dirty
Mom soon developed bedsores on her legs from inattention, so got her home and worked out an around-the-clock care schedule among our siblings. She was able to pass away in her own bed, surrounded by her family.
Yes, they is the real problem...our government and society has destroyed the family and now everyone instead of pulling together to grow family farms and family businesses and raise lots of kids, goes off to distant places to work for international companies , no longer raising human kids but expending parenting instincts on neutered animals treated like children, so that Americans can continue a meaningless existence of consuming but not producing so that politicians can have lifetime employment telling us what to do and how to live as they replace us with millions of people who they hope will be less insolent.
This big loving family couldn’t take in their so called matriarch of the family?...let’s start there.
I would never ever look or touch my mils backside...
Ditto...we have few traditional families anymore.....SS gave older people independence and so went the link between generations...
yes bed sores can be prevented but if the patient refuses to allow repositioning what can you do...I had a patient fully aware refuse even to use the bed pan rather than get up to a commode...she preferred being changed.
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