Dementia Resident in a nursing home ingested another resident’s opioid medication and died.
Dorothy Rieck was a nursing home resident with end stage dementia who lived at Watertown Health Care Center. She mistakenly ingested another resident’s narcotic, was hospitalized, and died. In litigation, it was discovered that Rieck’s roommate was on multiple doses of narcotics, multiple times per day. Testimony from nursing home nurses and aides established that medication passers would often leave her roommate’s narcotic pills unattended in their shared room.
On July 14, 2020, despite being found lying sideways and unresponsive in her bed throughout the night and am shifts, Rieck was not taken to the hospital for hours after the nursing home discovered a significant change in her condition. While in the hospital, nearly a day after she ingested a narcotic, the use of Narcan quickly reversed some of the effects of the overdose. Unfortunately, due to the delay in getting Rieck to the hospital, the medication mismanagement resulted in her death. The Corporate Defendant’s voluntarily paid an offer of settlement to avoid a jury trial.
19-year-old male adult family home resident sexually assaulted by staff. E.B. was a protectively placed 19-year-old male with significant cognitive impairments and learning disabilities. He resided at an assisted living facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin. E.B. […]
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