2023Doe, age 64, was admitted to Woe Nursing Home in 2016 with a seizure disorder and prior stroke and was assessed as being cognitively impaired. Doe required extensive assistance for her activities of daily living with one to two staff member assistants due to her stroke and left-sided paralysis. She required extensive assistance with her bathing. She suffered seizures while in the nursing home.
On February 4, 2022, she was placed in a shower chair, rolled to the shower room, and left alone by the nursing home staff. She was later found on the shower floor next to her shower chair and apparently was reaching for soap that had fallen on the floor when she fell out of the chair and onto her left hip. She suffered a fracture to her left upper femur and had to be hospitalized for 10 days. Her injury was deemed inoperable at the hospital.