Jury Finds Washington County Nursing Home Negligent
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008.
Chestertown, NY - As National Nursing Home Week is being observed statewide this week with the theme “Love Is Ageless, the state Department of Health was conducting an investigation into several complaints of negligence and wrongful death at the Eden Park Nursing Home in Glens Falls and a state Supreme Court jury ordered Washington County to pay $300,000 to the family of a woman who died as the result of a fall at the county-owned Pleasant Valley Adult Home in Argyle.
Former Fort Edward resident Esther Nolan, 75, died at the adult home in March 2003 following a fall from a toilet. The attorney representing Nolan’s family had argued that the woman’s death was caused by inadequate staffing and the improper installation of the toilet seat. Supreme Court Justice David B. Krogmann presided over the five day trial.
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