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(06/09) Jury awards former California resident of residential care facility $1,338,000 for reckless neglect

A California jury awarded the former resident of a residential care facility $1,338,000 for reckless abuse and neglect.  When the resident fell on December 31, 2006 and suffered a head contusion, three broken ribs, and a punctured lung, the facility owner and staff put her back in bed.  She did not get any medical attention until the next day, when her husband arrived and found her unresponsive.  She was sent to the hospital and had emergency surgery.  The Department of Social Services investigated the husband’s complaint and cited the facility’s unsafe practices. “Vista Jury Awards a Groundbreaking Verdict in Elder Abuse/Neglect Case” (news release, June 29, 2009).



http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/6/prweb2584354.htm

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