If a business rates itself as being one of the best in the country, you’d imagine it’d live up to its name and offer top-quality services. Unfortunately for a Texas father living at “one of the Best Nursing Homes in the US,” he barely made it out alive to a hospital after becoming deathly sick. It started six weeks ago, when the dad became “violently ill” from “food poisoning,” according to his daughter.
Despite multiple complaints of pain and discomfort, the nurses brushed him off and just gave him Tums and melatonin. Over the weeks, the father’s condition worsened, and eventually the daughter had the nurses come in to examine him during a call. The nursing home called her back, saying he “was fine and just had a stomachache and was anxious from not sleeping well.” Since they claimed his condition wasn’t urgent, they said they wouldn’t do any more checkups. The daughter didn’t give up and kept telling them to check if her dad was alright until finally the EMS was called.
The paramedic who took the father to the ICU later told the daughter that he was treated for “pneumonia, sepsis, gallbladder stones, vascular occlusion, internal bleeding, and gangrene.” His legs were also decaying from deep infection, and he had gone into septic shock earlier when the daughter was trying to convince the nursing home staff that he didn’t just have a mere “tummy ache.”
Online Users Encourage the Daughter to Seek Legal Action Against the Nursing Home
Fortunately, the dad was discharged and is now recovering, but the only time the nursing home reached out was to say that it would upgrade his room to one with “a big TV in it.” Sounds like some sort of bribery or shady peace offering to me. That said, the daughter took to Reddit to ask if she has the grounds to sue the nursing home after what the staff did to her father, to which everyone believes she should pursue legal action.
“This is elder abuse/neglect. Your state should have an agency that oversees them and a report needs to be made,” remarks a user. With so many overlooked signs of the dad’s severe health conditions, one person said that the facility is likely guilty of gross negligence. “They should have known that something was seriously wrong if they had taken his blood pressure which totally tanks when one is septic,” another said in agreement.
Hopefully, the daughter gets to the bottom of this ‘highly rated’ nursing home’s negligence of her father and reports it to a government agency or Adult Protective Services.
