When a sixty-nine-year-old woman who was always active and aware suddenly showed signs of confusion and paranoia in March 2020, she was admitted to the Geriatric Psychiatric Unit of Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. Six days later, she died in the hospital…medicalmalpracticelawyers, $10M Cincinnati Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Hospital Psych Unit Nurses’ Failure To Treat Medical Condition
She needed fluids. She needed sepsis antibiotic, and she needed potassium. She needed them quickly to help fight the sepsis infection, which is deadly, and she was never given a drop of the medication. There’s no records of why they didn’t do it. The nurses never did it. There’s nothing in her records of why it was never administered.
The woman died from the delay in treating her perforated bowel that led to septic shock which ultimately caused her death. The family alleged that the woman should have been treated for the medical condition instead of being kept in the psych unit.