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Montgomery County Nursing Home Faces Neglect Allegations
Posted on Nov 21, 2010
The family of a noted Galveston County Texas state representative and attorney says that their loved one was neglected and abused during his last weeks at a Texas nursing home.
According to his daughter, Texas lawyer and politician Donald Brown could have recovered from a surgery that he had at age 79 if only he had had proper care at the nursing home where he was sent to recover. Brown was sent to Willis Nursing and Rehabilitation in Montgomery County to recover from a hip surgery, where his family says that he was overmedicated and suffered from horrifying bedsores. He was admitted in August 2010 and died of respiratory failure on September 6 of the same year.
The family say that they have proof of the negligence that Borwn endured – they have pictures of his bedsores both before and after he was admitted to the nursing home. On the day he was admitted, he had for small bedsores. Just weeks later, all of the bedsores had gotten gruesomely worse, with bone showing through in some places. Medical experts agree that bedsores are preventable and treatable and not a normal aspect of living in a nursing home.
According to the KHOU in Houston, Texas, the Department of Aging and Disability Services received 16,000 complaints and allegations of nursing home neglect and abuse in the last year and dealt out only 37 penalties. While critics believe that this is unacceptable, state investigators and officials say that they are doing the best that they can, and that they believe that nursing homes should have the chance to fix their violations before they are shut down.
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