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Michigan nursing home abuse lawyers are reporting a recent story in the Detroit Free Press, “Trust and Neglect” about Lakeland Center, a Southfield, Michigan nursing home, where four deaths were under inspection by state investigators. Two of the deaths were linked to a lack of staffing and faulted Lakeland for serious mistakes in the days before the two other deaths.
One death, James Culbert, who was residing at the Lakeland Center, due to previous injuries in an ATV accident, died after staff failed to follow a doctor’s order to return Culbert to his ventilator. He had been taken off the ventilator earlier that day but reports show that for 15 hours, no one tracked Cublert’s wean data, which shows how a patient is doing without a ventilator, and he died not long after he hit his call button to say he couldn’t’ breathe.
A second death, very similar to Culbert’s was a patient, who had gone to the Lakeland Center for rehab chest and head injuries and to receive care for a tracheotomy. Like Culbert, she was also been weaned from her ventilator and staff failed to record the wean data.
In the other two deaths, two patients, one suffering from a brain aneurism and one who was a car accident victim died after receiving too much or not enough medication or prescribed oxygen.
I am very sorry to hear about these tragic stories and my condolences go out to the family of the deceased victims. It’s important that patients who suffer from nursing home abuse or neglect understand that they do have rights. Our nursing home neglect lawyers handle cases involving nursing home negligence for residents who suffer injuries and resident's family members who have lost a loved one in a Michigan health care facility such as a nursing home, hospital, adult foster care facilities, and assisted living facilities. These lawsuits are filed against the health care facility and the nursing home doctors whose negligence in their care of the resident caused injuries or death.
Reporting an incident of abuse and neglect in a nursing home, not only will protect you from further harm but also protect all the other residents and patients living in that nursing home as well from possible future abuse. Call our office now at
(800) 606-1717 if you believe you or a family member have been a victim of nursing home abuse. Our
Michigan personal injury lawyers will start working on your case immediately gathering all the evidence and witness statements to win and settle your case.
Information cited is from the Detroit Free Press.
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