Brett Cooper

One day, Ivy said, a wound care nurse called the family into his mother's room and showed them a severe pressure sore that had developed after Grissom hadn't been turned regularly.

Surgeons had to cut away infected tissue, leaving a large open wound.

After that, the elderly woman's health spiraled.

She started getting infection after infection.

During one late night ambulance transfer, an emergency medical worker quietly told him how his mother had arrived.

She pulled me to the side and told me how dirty and nasty and how wet she was.

The family's lawyer said that she died of sepsis from the bed sores that Hillview caregivers had allowed to become infected.

And a judge awarded that family $15 million.

Here's another story from a separate article.

The author writes, the company left a wake of documented cases of extreme neglect, talking about Schwartz's company.

In Arkansas, maggots were found in a resident's catheter, according to documents when the state attorney general issued fines.

In 2017, Skyline had taken over Ashton Place, a nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee.

Less than two months later, a resident whose leg had been recently amputated was taken from the nursing home where he was found lying in feces to a hospital where nurses discovered maggots and gangrene in his leg.

His death two days later prompted a state investigation which revealed that the man's dressing had not been changed for two days.

Staff members told investigators that problems arose in part when Skyline told nurses to abandon electronic medical records and go back to paper record keeping.

But I think, as we know now,

That was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the problems that this company was going through.

All of these stories are just horrific, and they are just a couple from dozens of lawsuits against this man, against his company, across 11 different states.

Couple other quick examples here.

One woman recalled the staff at a Little Rock, Arkansas nursing home where her mother lived being forced to serve residents raw vegetables and boxed pizza because no other food was available.