Walmart greeter died after work injury and developing iPhone-sized bedsores in nursing home, which led to MRSA and sepsis due to 'total neglect': Lawsuit

A 66-year-old Walmart greeter from Utah died aft suffering a enactment wounded and processing iPhone-sized bedsores portion she was rehabilitating astatine a nursing home, her household says successful a lawsuit.

"Total neglect connected their extremity is what ended up taking her," the woman's lad alleges astir the nursing facility.

"They're mode short-staffed," said Kenny Bircumshaw, lad of Tamara "Tammy" Bircumshaw, successful an interrogation with section ABC affiliate KTVX. "At archetypal she was truly happy, cheery. Then, erstwhile she started declining, she was successful symptom and conscionable miserable."

Bircumshaw, a grandmother from Layton, died successful July 2023 from wellness complications related to the bedsores she developed astatine Rocky Mountain Care successful Clearfield, according to her family's lawsuit, which was filed against the facility. She had suffered "a backmost wounded from work" and ended up getting backmost country to effort to hole it, Kenny Bircumshaw says.

"After getting the backmost fixed… it started to deteriorate connected her hips, truthful she had to person her hips replaced," helium told KTVX.

The family's lawyer, Barry Toone, recounts however it took conscionable 11 days for Tammy Bircumshaw to commencement processing bedsores astatine Rocky Mountain Care aft she was admitted successful July 2022 pursuing a hep surgery.

"She was expected to beryllium determination for a abbreviated play of clip and past get the different hep done," helium said. "When she went backmost to the infirmary to get the different hep done, they told her she couldn't bash it due to the fact that of that unit sore."

Kenny Bircumshaw added, "The surgeon called america from the operating country saying that helium couldn't bash the country due to the fact that she had excessively large of a unit sore."

According to the family's lawsuit, Tammy Bircumshaw tested affirmative for MRSA conscionable 1 period aft her country was cancelled.

"Ms. Bircumshaw did not statesman receiving specialized coiled attraction until Dec. 27, 2022, astatine which clip she was diagnosed with a stage-4 unit ulcer," the suit alleges, according to KTVX. "By that time, she had developed 3 bedsores."

Toone says Tammy Bircumshaw had a unit coiled that was "11-by-10-by-4 centimeters, and she died of sepsis." He told KTVX that the coiled was the size of 2 iPhones broadside by side.

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"She conscionable laid determination and was miserable… for her past time of life," remembered Kenny Bircumshaw. "She told my lad she loved him. That was the 1 and lone happening that she said the full full night, and she passed distant successful the morning."

The Bircumshaw household has accused Rocky Mountain Care of being "chronically understaffed," which led to Tammy being neglected and not taken attraction of properly.

Attempts by Law&Crime to scope the installation for remark were unsuccessful Sunday. It declined to remark erstwhile reached by KTVX.