A plaintiff and her husband have initiated a nursing home negligence lawsuit against Sunrise Senior Living. Allegedly, the Sunrise residential care facility is appealing to seniors who are no longer able to live independently, and multiple communications from the company indicate that the staff will take great care of residents.

However, the nursing home negligence claim lawsuit says that after the plaintiff was admitted under a residency agreement in 2016, she began to suffer at the hands of the staff. At the end of 2016, the Sunrise executive director allegedly the husband of the patient that she should be moved to the dementia floor of the facility, because she had attempted to wander out of the facility and into other residents’ rooms.

In January 2017, the plaintiff then moved to the dementia floor and the rate paid by the family members increased to reflect these added services. However, the plaintiff alleges in this lawsuit that the resident was not more closely monitored after moving to the dementia floor.

In fact, one of the dangers allegedly presented to the resident at this point in time had to do with staying in a bed without a guardrail and no safety lighting or night lights. The plaintiff allegedly developed a fever, as shared in the nursing home negligence claim lawsuit, on Jan. 25, 2017.

The nursing home negligence claim lawsuit details that the husband of the patient communicated with both the head of the dementia floor and the LPN on duty regarding the fever and had a doctor send a prescription for the illness.

However, the complaint says that the facility kept losing one of the prescriptions even though they were listed on the same facts page. The nursing home negligence lawsuit further details that the facility had a responsibility to closely monitor the plaintiff’s conditions after hours and to monitor her fever.

The husband says that after his wife was found sleeping on the floor by a staff member, he was never informed about the bruising on her arms or the gash on her forehead. When the husband visited his wife in the emergency room, he found these injuries and claims that someone attacked his wife. This ultimately led to him filing a nursing home negligence claim lawsuit.

A nursing home negligence claim lawsuit can be filed by the patient themselves, but more often than not it’s family members who realize what has happened and take matters into their own hands on behalf of the loved one.

If it’s discovered that your family member did not get the care he or she deserves and that the staff inside the facility failed to follow up on treatment options like moving your loved one every so often to prevent bedsores, this information might become critical in your pursuit of a nursing home negligence claim lawsuit.

The Nursing Home Negligence Claim Lawsuit is Case No. 1:18-CV-01750-BMC filed in the United States District Court Eastern District of New York.