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An 83-year-old woman who had to have her leg amputated because of infections she acquired at a nursing home has filed a lawsuit against the home's operators.
The Lawsuit
The suit claims that the home failed to feed Barbara Brison on 88 different occasions. She suffered from malnutrition and dehydration as a result. Brison was also diabetic. All of these factors combined to make Brison extremely vulnerable to infections.
Because she was so vulnerable, when she acquired an infection on her leg, she had to have it amputated.
The lawsuit filed on Brison's behalf by her daughter, Libby Johnson, accuses the South Shore Nursing and Rehabilitation Center LLC, and its parent company Care Centers Inc. of various types of resident abuse and neglect.
“Certainly the failure to provide feedings as documented by the Illinois department of public health is outrageous,” said Robert Rooth, Brison's attorney.
Rooth said that Brison was dependant on the home for her survival, but the staff there failed to properly care for her.
After the amputation, “the family was looking for other homes, but before they could place her somewhere else she passed away,” said Rooth.
Previous Suits Against Care Centers, Inc.
Care Centers, Inc. is also a defendant in a lawsuit filed against it last month over allegedly negligent care at Prairie Manor Nursing Home.
That lawsuit claims that the resident suffered numerous bedsores and fell on her head as a result of the negligent treatment she received there.
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