Nursing Home Lawsuit
Friday, February 10th, 2006.
Standardsville, VA - A Nursing Home in Greene County is facing a lawsuit. They’re being accused of allegedly abusing and neglecting residents there and in one case one person died. The Virginia Department Office of Protection and Advocacy, VOPA, is suing the Evergreene Nursing Care Center for allegedly providing poor care to its patients.
VOPA, which handles abuse cases, claims the center's staff mistreated patients there between October of 2004 and June 2005. Some of the accusations include: failing to give patients proper medication, altering medical records, and a wrongful death claim in which employees allegedly failed to perform CPR on a patient because they were sleeping on the job. The patient later died.
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