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Some WI Nursing Homes Rack Up Federal Violations
WAOW Newsline 9 is reporting that seven homes were officially designated as offering substandard quality of care in 2012. Three homes were given that designation in 2011. The investigation found the following: Benedictine Manor of Wausau received 9 federal violations one of which included the elopement of a male resident…
Read MoreFacility Cited in Death of Alzheimer’s Patient
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has cited Four Winds Lodge for failure to check on a 93-year-old resident who died of hypothermia last March. The citation was for failing to provide adequate supervision. Edna Biederman, who suffered from Alzheimers, was not issued an alarm bracelet after displaying exit-seeking behavior three…
Read More$1.5 million Verdict in Germantown Group Home Death
The following is an article written by Lee Berquist and appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on January 8, 2012. Jurors in Washington County awarded more than $1.5 million Friday to the mother of 56-year-old woman who died after choking while in the care of a group home in Germantown. Vicky…
Read MoreSunrise Care Center Resident Found Dead After Being Left in the Heat
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an article today about a 69-year-old nursing home resident who died yesterday at Sunrise Care Center in Milwaukee after care workers left him outdoors for more than three hours in 90 degree heat Tuesday afternoon. According to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiners office, Martin Belkin…
Read MorePending Family Care Cap Concerns County Probate Court
The pending enrollment cap on Wisconsin’s Family Care program could put more senior citizens and mentally disabled people before judges in an already overburdened Milwaukee County probate court. During the past four years, the number of protective-action filings, which include guardianships for senior citizens and young adults with mental health…
Read MoreRoberta Murphy: She Left Her Nursing Home With Infected Bed Sore And Later Died
Milwaukee, WI A woman who suffered from a Stage 4 decubitus ulcer received a settlement after receiving care from a Milwaukee area home health company. Attorney Jeffrey Pitman of Pitman, Kalkhoff, Sicula & Dentice, S.C. settled the case on behalf of a home health patient who was cared for by…
Read MoreAbsent Safety Railing Leads to Death of Elderly Woman
Richard Kalkhoff, an accident lawyer at the law offices of Pitman, Kalkhoff & Sicula S.C., won a settlement on behalf of a Stevens Point woman who died at a long term care facility after her wheelchair fell off a handicapped accessible ramp. The Plaintiff exited the main doorway of the…
Read MoreSubsantial Settlement in Nursing Home Case
Milwaukee personal injury attorney Jeffrey Pitman of Pitman, Kalkhoff & Sicula S.C. settled a nursing home neglect case on behalf of an 82-year-old New Berlin woman who suffered a significant injury to her lower leg while at Mitchell Manor, a Milwaukee area nursing home. The resident was admitted to Mitchell…
Read MoreResident Died of Malnutrition and Dehydration at Manitowoc Facility
The family of an 82-year-old man who died after he suffered severe malnutrition and dehydration at St. Marys at Felician Village has sued the Manitowoc nursing home for wrongful death. The lawsuit, filed in Manitowoc County Circuit Court, claims that administrators and staff were negligent because they failed to provide…
Read MoreMost Vulnerable Americans Protected by Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act
Washington, DC – The most vulnerable Americans and their families will no longer be forced to give up their legal rights and sign one-sided mandatory binding arbitration clauses under new legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate. The bipartisan Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2009, introduced by Sen. Mel…
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