A nursing home in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin recently agreed to a settlement of more than $2 million dollars to resolve a wrongful death lawsuit.
Cynthia Wilms was a patient at the Willows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after having hip replacement surgery on July 30, 2007. The lawsuit claimed that the nursing home staff failed to treat her surgical wound correctly resulting in her death. Wilms, 72, was a wife, mother, grandmother and piano teacher. Her condition worsened as her surgical wound developed a common and treatable staph infection. The lawsuit alleged that no one at the understaffed nursing home called a doctor or took appropriate steps to treat the infection.
This incident brings attention to the all too common issues of nursing home neglect caused by inadequate staffing and training of nursing home personnel. The Wilms family didn’t know that the facility they chose for Cynthia had a history of violations and had been listed by the federal government as one of the 54 worst nursing homes in the nation.
The Wilms family had to persevere through more than three years of the legal process before finally receiving a judgment in their loved one’s death. The parent company that owns the Willows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center emphasized that the settlement includes no admission of liability on their part.
If you live in the Phoenix, Arizona area and have lost a loved one due to neglect while in the care of a nursing home, please contact the Arizona nursing home abuse attorneys at Cullan & Cullan, M.D., J.D. today to schedule your free initial consultation.
