Nursing home's 'carelessness' led to husband getting Stage 4 bedsore and dying just 'weeks' after his wife took him in for a 'short-term' rehab stint: Lawsuit

An 85-year-old New York City antheral went into a nursing location for a "short-term" rehabilitation stint with a "plan to return" to his wife soon after, lone to beryllium hospitalized "weeks later" with a fatal Stage 4 bedsore, pneumonia and sepsis owed to the facility's "carelessness," a lawsuit says.

Robert Spadacini, a Bronx resident, had arrived astatine Providence Rest Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center successful the borough's Country Club vicinity connected Nov. 28, 2023, pursuing a "brief hospitalization" for little extremity swelling and shortness of breath, according to a legal complaint filed by his wife, Mary Ann Spadacini, which was obtained this week by Law&Crime.

"[Spadacini] was admitted to Providence Rest for short-term rehabilitation with a program to instrumentality to his home, wherever helium lived with his wife," the ailment says, noting however 2 antithetic doctors were tasked with treating him.

"On oregon astir January 12, 2024, Robert Spadacini was admitted to Jack D. Weiler Hospital from the nursing home," the papers explains. "Spadacini had a bacterial infection, multi-lobar pneumonia, and was successful sepsis."

Once astatine the hospital, physicians discovered that Spadacini had a "pressure sore, bedsore, oregon tegument ulcer of the sacral portion categorized arsenic a Stage 4 ulcer," meaning the afloat thickness of his tegument and underlying tissues of the sacrum country had "died disconnected exposing musculus and bone," per the complaint.

Spadacini was astatine the infirmary for little than 2 weeks, receiving attraction for his aesculapian complications earlier helium died connected Jan. 24, 2024. It was aboriginal determined that Spadacini died of "sepsis owed to multi-lobar pneumonia," according to the complaint.

Mary Spadacini's lawyers, who see attorneys from the New York-based steadfast German Rubenstein, LLP and nursing location litigation steadfast Michael Hill Trial Law, allege that Spadacini died owed to "careless" and "negligent" attraction helium received from "nurses, doctors, attendants and/or employees" portion astatine Providence Rest.

"The terrible symptom and suffering were caused solely by crushed of the carelessness, negligence, malpractice, departure from the accepted modular of care, from the wanton and willful disregard connected the portion of the defendants," the ailment says, naming Providence Rest and its affiliates, including the healthcare ministry of the Archdiocese of New York, ArchCare, arsenic defendants.

"The foregoing negligence and malpractice claimed was done with reckless, grossly negligent disregard for the welfare, health, and well-being of Robert Spadacini," the ailment concludes.

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ArchCare and the different Providence Rest affiliates named successful the suit did not respond to Law&Crime's requests for remark connected Wednesday.

"Mr. Spadacini entered the nursing location without corruption oregon unit sores, and weeks later, helium was hospitalized with a Stage 4 bedsore, pneumonia, and sepsis," lawyer Michael Hill told Law&Crime. "When those kinds of conditions make nether a facility's exclusive care, it raises superior questions astir whether basal standards of monitoring and attraction were followed and that's indefensible."