The complaint obtained by BocaNewsNow.com names Heartland Boca Opco LLC — the company licensed to operate the facility — along with Heartland Boca Intermediate Opco Holdco LLC, Excelsior Care Group LLC, and Palm Beach Health Consulting LLC. Two former facility administrators, Katherine Ellen Hilgar and Ellie Schutt, are also named as defendants. According to the lawsuit, those companies operated as a single unit that controlled staffing, budgets and policies at the nursing home.
Attorneys for the estate allege the facility failed to keep adequate staffing levels, failed to monitor changes in Poitier’s condition, and failed to get her the medical attention she needed. The lawsuit lays out six counts, ranging from ordinary negligence to wrongful death, breach of fiduciary duty, and exploitation of a vulnerable adult…