A Kentucky woman admitted into a nursing home for “short-term” rehabilitation following an ankle fracture ended up having to get her left leg amputated below the knee after staffers “failed to follow the orders” of her orthopedic surgeon, a lawsuit says.
Staff at the Coldspring Transitional Care Center in Campbell County allegedly failed to remove Brenda Roberts’ “immobilizing ankle boot” while the 75-year-old Williamstown resident was laying in bed and chairs during her recovery, which resulted in her left heel resting against “the hard plastic surfaces” of the boot, according to her legal complaint.
This ultimately caused “exposure of the skin over heel” and “excessive pressure,” leading to a stage 4 ulcer and “accelerated deterioration of her health,” the complaint alleges. Roberts’ lawyer, Matt Mooney, says she had to have the lower half of her leg cut off as a result…