Horrific Bedsore Kills New York Nursing Home Resident
Patricia Henry holding photographs of Verda Henry, her mother
By all accounts, seventy-three year old Verda Henry was an active senior in 2005, working as a cashier at Eastchester Senior Center, family chef, baby-sitter for her great-grandchildren, and foster mother. When she fell and injured her arm in 2005, she went to Sutton Park Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation for therapy and assumed that she would be home in about a month. She died at the nursing home in 2007, after her requests to go home were repeatedly denied.
Patricia Henry, Verda Henry's daughter, and her children visited Verda every day, sometimes staying as many as eight hours. Patricia Henry said, "There would be a nurse and she would run between floors and they had no time. Nobody checks on her. Nobody feeds her. Every time we asked to take her home there was a reason we couldn't." Verda Henry soon became so weak she couldn't even move.
Patricia Henry found it accidentally - a huge bedsore on her mother's tail bone - when she was changing her mother's gown. Within days, the sore, already in an advanced stage, was infected. The last words Patricia Henry heard from her mother were screams as doctors scraped at the blackened skin. "You could put your whole hand down in her back. You could see the bones and spinal cord. It was like raw meat. Mommy screamed until she couldn't scream no more," Henry said.
Patricia Henry filed a lawsuit against Sutton Park Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation after her mother's 2007 death and filed a lawsuit last week against South Shore Medical Center, a facility across the street from the nursing home.
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