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In April 2019, a jury in Escambia County heard the evidence and came back with a $200,000 verdict for her family. They found the nursing home was negligent in caring for Ms. Davis and that the lack of supervision directly caused her fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two hundred thousand dollars for a life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That number sits at the low end of Florida nursing home verdicts, where the median payout across the state is roughly $1.5 million according to Law.com’s VerdictSearch data. But the Davis case was not about a massive corporate payout. It was about whether the facility had enough people on staff to watch a resident who needed watching, and whether anybody was paying attention when she went down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Escambia County has almost 30 assisted living facilities. The senior population in Northwest Florida keeps growing. And the question of whether the people inside those facilities are actually being looked after is not one that gets answered by reading the brochure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A second Pensacola case sits in the public record and it is harder to read than the Davis verdict<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A 90-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital from Rosewood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, also in Pensacola. When the hospital doctors examined her they found she was dehydrated, malnourished, covered in bruises and scabs on her back, and had skin literally growing over bandages that had not been changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She was also suffering from sepsis caused by an untreated urinary tract infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Skin growing over bandages means those bandages had been on her body for so long that new tissue formed around them. That does not happen in a day or a week. That happens when nobody is checking. When nobody is changing wound dressings. When a resident is sitting in a facility that is supposed to be providing daily care and the daily care is not happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Florida’s Nursing Home Residents’ Rights are codified in \u00a7 400.022 of the Florida Statutes. The law requires facilities to provide adequate and appropriate health care, to maintain the dignity and privacy of residents, and to ensure that residents are free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a7 400.0233<\/a> goes further. It establishes standards for minimum staffing levels, documentation requirements, and the obligation to develop and follow individualized care plans for each resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When a resident develops bedsores that progress to Stage 4 (tissue damage down to bone), or loses significant weight without medical explanation, or accumulates bruises with no documented incident reports, those are not ambiguities in the law. They are violations of specific statutory requirements that the facility agreed to follow as a condition of its licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Rainey C. Booth, Pensacola nursing home abuse attorney<\/a> and Managing Partner at Michles & Booth, the pattern in these cases tends to follow the same trajectory. Staffing drops. The remaining staff cannot cover the number of residents who need repositioning, wound care, hydration monitoring, and medication management. Incident reports stop being filed because there are not enough people to write them. And by the time the family notices the decline, the damage has been compounding for weeks or months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Booth is a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist who has practiced in Pensacola since 1984. His firm handles nursing home abuse cases across Northwest Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA 90-Year-Old Left Rosewood Healthcare with Skin Growing Over Her Bandages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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More Than 60% of Florida Nursing Homes Changed Ownership Since 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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