An 85-year-old New York City man went into a nursing home for a “short-term” rehabilitation stint with a “plan to return” to his wife soon after, only to be hospitalized “weeks later” with a fatal Stage 4 bedsore, pneumonia and sepsis due to the facility’s “carelessness,” a lawsuit says.
Robert Spadacini, a Bronx resident, had arrived at Providence Rest Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in the borough’s Country Club neighborhood on Nov. 28, 2023, following a “brief hospitalization” for lower 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 plan to return to his home, where he lived with his wife,” the complaint says, noting how two different doctors were tasked with treating him…