The family of an Ohio woman who died of sepsis after she developed a pressure wound at a nursing home is calling for justice for their matriarch.
Lucy Garcia was 72 years old when she died on July 2. She had previously been a resident at Arbors at Oregon, a nursing home about 4½ miles southeast of Toledo.
Arbors at Oregon did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday but Matt Mooney, an attorney representing the Garcia family, said the family wants to file a wrongful death suit against the facility.
“In Ohio, wrongful death … is any death that’s caused by neglect, negligence, recklessness, willful conduct like an intentional homicide, that would all fall within a wrongful death case,” Mooney told USA TODAY.
The family has argued that the system running the nursing home set policies and procedures for their staff to abide by that led to Garcia’s death, Mooney said.
Mooney, who is representing the Garcia family, said they want “accountability from the Arbors of Oregon.”