Comments on: Hospital Bedsore Lawsuits

By: Wound care nurse

Wound care nurse — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:45:45 +0000

I am a certified (will keep certification unnamed) wound care nurse with over ten years experience in treating wounds. i work in both acute and sub-acute settings and am quite outraged at the unsubstantiated focus on SNF’s as it relates to pressure ulcers. What I don’t understand is the fact that hospitals are almost exempt from responsibility as it pertains to aquired pressure ulcers. I work mainly on a cardiac rehab unit for patients status/post open heart surgery. Even though my patients are are quite mobile, i would have to say that about 75% of them arrive in my care with HOSPITAL AQUIRED pressure ulcers. Yes, nearly 75%. I would be more than willing to provide raw data when/if appropriate. The other thing that outrages me is that there is mainly one hosp whom sends us these patients. What is sad is that I see the same reaction from nearly every family member… It is as if they know that there is nothing they can do as it pertains to hosp responsibility, but they seem to know that the nursing home is held to a higher standard. As if to say,” I know it didn’t happen here but you better pray that it doesn’t get worse while he/she is here”. The facility that employs me is very proactive in prevention. I am part of a 4 member team who does weekly wound rounds and PRN evaluations. One would think that we have our stuff together. Well, we are the focus of a very serious lawsuit pertaining to presure ulcers. It just goes to show that no good deed shall go unpunished.

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:40:04 +0000

Ft.Hamilton hospital in Hamilton Ohio released my mother with a stage two bed wound ,after a month in their care.The surgeon that did her hip replacement surgery put to small of a ball in and admitted this after the forth time it popped out of socket.she only lasted 3.5 months.She died on Mothers Day 07. Just because she was 81 years old, she was my world. My life will never be the same.

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:40:53 +0000

Some nurses and hospital personnel fail to check the patients records and are notified by family of bed sores after they have gotten worse. Although unfortunate, what do you say when you lose someone because the people you entrust your loved ones to do not do their job or have so little compassion for your loved one that they just don’t care. I have been through so much with hospitals and doctors and no one wants to help you understand WHY does this happen and why and how do they get away with it. The medical system continues to fail us.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:26:25 +0000

my mother was taken to the hospital from the nursing home where it was discovered that she had multiple bedsores. Some of the bedsores went all the way to the bone, and another one on her foot that had she lived, her leg would have to be amputated because the bedsore was so bad. Everytime I visited her at the nursing home, they would have her foot wrapped and told me that it was only a minor bedsore.