The families of Barbara Lefforge and TJ Jackson are suing assisted living facility Subacute & Rehabilitation Center and its owner Covenant Care for Santa Ana nursing home neglect and negligence. Meantime, the defendants' attorney maintains that his clients are not to blame for Lefforge's California personal injuries and Jackson's wrongful death.
On her first day at the Southern California nursing home last September, Lefforge, who was there to recover from foot surgery, was given a morphine overdose that caused her to suffer brain damage. The dosage, which was for 50 mg of Demerol instead of 50 mg of morphine, had been wrongly prescribed by Dr. Wesley Kobayashi. The podiatrist, however, says that the dosage was a recommendation and not a prescription.
Lefforge's Orange County, California nursing home negligence complaint contends that the facility's admitting doctor and medical director should have caught the medication error--especially as the pharmacy had cautioned that the dose was too much. Her nursing home neglect lawsuit claims that after she overdosed, the nursing home failed to properly monitor her and she wasn't treated for her brain injury until the following day.
In the Santa Ana wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson's family, workers at the assisted living facility are accused of allowing the then 83-year-old patient to starve, become dehydrated, and sustain an infection that lead to blood poisoning, kidney failure, and death.
Nursing Home Neglect
Failure to provide nursing home residents the nursing care and medical attention that they need can prove detrimental. It is a good idea to explore your legal options with a >Santa Ana, California nursing home abuse and neglect law firm.
The OC Register reports that Covenant Care's nursing homes are among the hundreds of California facilities that the state has given $880 million in additional compensation so that they could add more nursing home workers and pay them better. California Watch, however, is reporting that even with the additional funding, 232 of the nursing homes not only allowed nursing ratios to drop below the state minimum, but they also cut staff members.
After receiving state bonuses, Santa Ana home cut care, OC Register, April 19, 2010
Nursing homes received millions from California taxpayers while cutting staff, services, SJ Mercury News/Covenant Care, April 18, 2010
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