When 80-year-old Barbara Kimbrough entered a Livonia nursing and rehabilitation center after spinal surgery, her family believed she was in a safe place designed to protect Detroit’s most vulnerable elders. Instead, she left with irreversible damage: stage 4 pressure ulcers, a painful bone infection, and health complications that her loved ones say were entirely preventable.
When 42-year-old Ebony Williams sought relief from chronic pelvic pain and excessive uterine bleeding, she expected answers, or at least compassion. Instead, she says her doctors dismissed her concerns, ignored her pleas, and ultimately removed her uterus in a hysterectomy that she believes could have been avoided had her voice been taken seriously.
And when 53-year-old Levetta Hackworth complained of headaches, blurred vision, and optic nerve swelling, her doctors had nearly a year of opportunities to intervene. Instead, she endured delay after delay until she was left completely blind – permanently…