Mansfield Memorial Homes of Mansfield, Ohio is coming under more scrutiny after a former resident is suing the home alleging negligence. Dorothy Midcap, 64, is suing the home alleging negligence at the nursing home necessitated surgery and other treatment. Midcap says she went to the facility to rehabilitate a hip fracture she suffered after she was struck by a car while in a wheelchair and developed a bedsore and infection that went all the way to the bone.
According to Midcap’s attorney, Midcap took longer to recover from her bedsore than she did from the hip injury. “Her medical expenses were extensive. She had a pretty lengthy stay in the hospital for a surgery and a wound vac. She ended up having to have a visiting nurse come in,” he said. “Even to this date, I don’t think that wound is completely healed.”
Mansfield Memorial Homes is already on thin ice with the State Health Department. In February, Mansfield Memorial Homes was named in a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It was one of 131 nursing homes nationwide which had poor inspection records. The Ohio Department of Health found the facility had nine deficiencies in the area of health, and five fire safety deficiencies at that time. Currently, the nursing home is labeled a “special focus facility” subjecting the nursing home to two inspections per year. However, If Mansfield Memorial Homes completes its next inspection with no more than three minor deficiencies, it can “graduate” and be removed from the state special focus list.
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