Last year, doctors amputated the left leg of 84-year-old Lawrence Cline above the knee because he suffered from severe bone infection and bedsores infested by maggots, according to a lawsuit his family has filed against the low-rated Central Kentucky nursing home where he lived.
The Cline family is suing Edgemont Healthcare of Cynthiana in Harrison Circuit Court for negligence and violations of Lawrence Cline’s rights as a long-term care patient.
Also named in the suit are the facility’s owners, Bonnie Haefer of Paris and Ernest Moore of Edwardsville, Ill., and its administrator, Dannita Morgan…