A Charlotte nursing home that allowed a woman’s wound to become infested with maggots has already been cited by North Carolina’s health department. Now, her grandson is asking a judge to make the facility, its workers and its owners pay for alleged problems that led to the infested wound.
Bernice Mayes, an 81-year-old dementia patient, beat a COVID infection in early 2021. Four months later, she faced another battle: a “rampant maggot infestation,” according a lawsuit filed in Mecklenburg County Superior Court on Feb. 28.
After getting his grandmother to a hospital — something University Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center allegedly declined to do after learning of the bug-ridden heel wound — Justin Waddell submitted a complaint to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. University Place and its owners were “severely sanctioned monetarily” and forced to take “corrective action.”…