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TX Nursing Home Resident Claims Negligence
July 14, 2008
A former resident of Life Care Center in Plano, TX, recently filed a suit against the home claiming they were negligent in his care.
The man says employees at the long-term facility failed to give him the proper medication, which potentially could have killed him.
Resident Deprived of Vital Medication
Richard Ward admitted himself to the Life Care Center after suffering two-heart attacks within less than a week and reportedly gave the staff a list of the 16 medications he was to take daily.
After only being at the home for a day, Ward claims he began to feel worse.
“I could hardly walk to the bathroom,” he explains. “I started checking my cup of medication, they were giving me against what I was supposed to be taking and they weren’t the same pills.”
Court documents claim that for days Ward was given the wrong medications and not the sufficient amount of others.
“There was no follow-up and no communication between the facility and the pharmacy,” Ward’s ex-wife, who is also an emergency room nurse, reported.
Plaintiff Exposes Life Care Center
Richard Ward, who is a retired Army emergency medicine physician’s assistant, claims he is fortunate that he knew how to read a medical report, otherwise he may have died while at the home.
“What went on there was criminal,” states Ward, who no longer lives at Life Care Center, but has filed the suit to protect the residents who still call the facility their home.
(Source: Plano Star)
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