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Tuesday, February 25, 1997
Attorney General settles nursing home suit,
files another
AUSTIN (AP) - Attorney General Dan Morales announced a lawsuit
against one nursing home and a settlement with another in which
he said conditions were unsafe and unhealthy for residents.
Morales is seeking civil penalties in a lawsuit against Crestview
Manor Retirement and Convalescent Center in Waco alleging patients
there were neglected.
The attorney general obtained a $25,000 settlement in a lawsuit
filed in 1994 against the Texarkana Nursing Center, where the
attorney general said patients were alleged to be in danger of
life-threatening conditions as a result of neglect.
The settlement with Britwell Investments II Inc., doing business
as Texarkana Nursing Center, was filed Monday in state district
court in Travis County. Britwell, which did not admit guilt in
the settlement, sold the nursing center to Unison, of Scottsdale,
Ariz., in 1995.
Texarkana Nursing Center administrator Don Henry, who has been
with the company for less than a year, did not have a comment
on the settlement.
The new lawsuit was filed in state district court in McLennan
County against Marwitz Brothers Inc., doing business as Crestview
Manor. It seeks civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation
and per day of violation.
Scott Marwitz, President of Marwitz Brothers, Inc., said he
was unaware of the suit and had no comment.
The lawsuit alleges that patients were neglected and found
unbathed, bruised, with malodorous, infected open wounds, unchanged
diapers, and lying in beds soaked with urine and crusted and smeared
with feces.
Patients were also found with dirty and blocked feeding tubes
and dirty urinary drainage tubes, and soaked wound dressings.
Bathroom and shower areas were found to be dirty with dried feces
and vomit, according to the lawsuit. Send a Letter to
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