The Parkridge Specialty Care nursing home in Pleasant Hill is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of Kerry Morris, inset. (Main photo via Google Earth; inset photo courtesy the family of Kerry Morris)
An Iowa nursing home company has faced at least 17 wrongful-death and negligence lawsuits over the past 16 months, a review of court records shows.
The lawsuits have been filed against Care Initiatives, a nonprofit corporation based in West Des Moines that operates 43 Iowa nursing homes as well as several assisted living centers and hospice locations…