Kentucky Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing Home Sued for $155 Million in Wrongful Death
March 23 , 2006
The Beverly Health and Rehabilitation of Frankfort, Kentucky is facing a slew of allegations in a $155 million wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the daughter of Loren Richards. Mr. Richards died in March 2002 under the care of the staff at this nursing home facility.
According to the allegations, 84-year-old Mr. Richards cried out in pain for ten hours before he died, begging for someone to help relieve him of unbearable pain in his abdomen and intestines. Nurses did not respond to Mr. Richards at all. Of the 13 nurses on duty that day, 11 were on break while Mr. Richards cried out for help in vain. According to the nursing home abuse lawsuit, the staff at Beverly covered-up his cause of death and tried to evade state investigations.
During the first week of this jury trial, Richards' daughter, Wanda Delapane, and her attorneys stated that this 100-bed nursing home center was grossly understaffed and that nurses on duty failed to take the necessary steps to prevent Richards' suffering.
This trial underscores the serious problems, which pervade many nursing homes in Kentucky and throughout the nation. In recent years, just the Beverly company alone has been accused of nursing home abuse in wrongful death cases filed in Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, Virginia, and Indiana. A court in Indiana found employees with Beverly guilty of homicide attributable to gross nursing home neglect.
The president of the Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform says he cannot recall a nursing home abuse jury trial as big as this one, in terms of the size of the punitive damages sought in this case.
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