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Elizabeth Massey filed a lawsuit against Clinton Place after her daughter allegedly suffered health conditions there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tayjon Bumphus<\/p>\n
CLINTON, Ky. \u2014 A mother filed a lawsuit against a nursing home in Clinton, Kentucky, after she claims her daughter suffered poor conditions there, resulting in maggots in one of her wounds.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Massey filed the complaint in 2024 against Clinton Place after her daughter, Leslie Massey, allegedly endured multiple health issues. The complaint lists Clinton Place, five other LLCs, and three individuals, including Trella Wilson, the nursing home\u2019s administrator.<\/p>\n
The suit lists four counts: negligence, medical negligence, corporate negligence and violations of long-term care resident\u2019s rights, which the lawsuit claims led to Leslie\u2019s deteriorating health.<\/p>\n
Leslie was admitted to Clinton Place in December 2020 after Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer. Elizabeth said she had taken care of her adult daughter her entire life, and it was difficult to continue to take care of Leslie after her husband died and her diagnosis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just couldn\u2019t take care of her by myself anymore,\u201d Elizabeth said. \u201cI had to do something, and I trusted these people with my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leslie was diagnosed with Prader-Willi syndrome \u2014 a rare genetic condition that can cause developmental delays and hyperphagia, an intense drive to eat \u2014 at a young age. Brian Jasper, Elizabeth\u2019s attorney of record, said Clinton Place staff were not properly educated and trained on PWS.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Leslie] had a condition where she couldn\u2019t stop [eating], and the care plan in this case failed her because they were not protecting her from those compulsive disorders,\u201d Jasper said.<\/p>\n
He said that led to Leslie gaining a \u201csubstantial amount of weight,\u201d affecting her mobility and eventually becoming bed bound. Jasper said it also increased her risk for pressure ulcers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for the people that work there to take care of her because she required a lot of physicality to turn [and] reposition her, but it\u2019s the responsibility of the facility,”\u00a0Jasper said.\u00a0“If they can\u2019t meet her needs, they have to make accommodations or find her somewhere that can meet her needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jasper went on to say the facility failed to meet Leslie\u2019s other needs: providing basic hygiene and proper nutrition. He said evidence shows that Leslie refused a bath and staff honored her right to refuse; however, Jasper said, \u201cWe feel like the facility many times let Leslie make decisions for herself that should not have been made.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLeslie did not have the ability to process and understand that refusing this care was bad for her, and they did it anyway,”\u00a0Jasper said.\u00a0“They would just let her refuse, and they would just mark it down when they should have taken steps to go around that to make sure she got the care that she needed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawsuit, along with Jasper and Massey, said the lack of care for her basic hygiene, nutrition and health led to Leslie suffering \u201caccelerated deterioration of her health and physical condition beyond that caused by the normal aging process,\u201d including developing a Stage III pressure injury, sepsis and facility-acquired maggots in wounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen maggots form in a wound organically, or just in a room of poor hygiene and poor pest control, that is a clear sign of neglect,\u201d Jasper said.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth claims Leslie had maggots in her body three times while she was living at Clinton Place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was shocked. I was shocked that that was allowed to happen,\u201d Elizabeth said. \u201cNothing you can say will change what y\u2019all have done to my daughter. Nothing. I mean, it was disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not only does the lawsuit claim the poor nursing conditions impacted Leslie\u2019s health, but it also says Clinton Place was not adequately staffed to take care of Leslie.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel like that was a clear sign that they were not providing enough qualified staff for her assessments and to get the preventative care that she needed because she was clearly at high risk for everything that happened,\u201d Jasper said. \u201cShe needed a lot of care, and they were just not staffing in a way that would meet those needs. And because of that, these problems happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jasper explains why this case is being tried as a civil suit instead of a criminal case.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis didn\u2019t come up as a criminal case because typically a criminal case would be a situation \u2014 and I\u2019ve had these cases before \u2014 where, for example, a CNA will get frustrated with a resident, they\u2019ll haul off and slap them. That\u2019s physical abuse. That\u2019s assault. Those people get charged criminally. This was, again, more of a neglect issue, where they kept missing the care that she needed,\u201d Jasper said.<\/p>\n
WPSD reached out to Clinton Place for comment on the lawsuit. Trella Wilson, the administrator at Clinton Place, said in a statement, \u201cWe dispute the allegations, but can\u2019t comment on pending litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how they can say that they weren\u2019t responsible. She was in their care, and this happened,\u201d Elizabeth said.<\/p>\n
The case had a motion hearing on Thursday, Oct. 15. Jasper said the case was supposed to go to trial, but was pushed back to a tentative date in 2028.<\/p>\n
In the suit, Elizabeth requests the following relief: judgment against the defendants in an amount that will fairly compensate Elizabeth for damages, punitive damages, pre- and post-judgment interest, costs and attorney’s fees, trial by jury and all further relief.<\/p>\n
Although Leslie has passed, Elizabeth said she is going to continue fighting for her daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want them to do their job so other families won\u2019t be going through what I\u2019m going through. No one deserves to be treated like that, and they just need to be diligent with their care,\u201d Elizabeth said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Massey filed a lawsuit against Clinton Place after her daughter allegedly suffered health conditions there.\u00a0 Tayjon Bumphus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[371435,371433,303075,97,252,253,2932,371434,371436,87627],"class_list":["post-884995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-brian-jasper","tag-clinton-place","tag-elizabeth-massey","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-lawsuit","tag-leslie-massey","tag-maggots","tag-neglect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}