Coroner condemns Bupa nursing home for death
23rd April 2009
By John Harrison
A nursing home in Watford has been condemned for allowing a 91-year-old woman to die in pain and covered in horrifying bedsores.
Gwendoline Hoar died while a patient at River Court Nursing Home, in July 2007.
An inquest into her death was held this week and heard Mrs Hoar had been admitted to the home in February 2007.
However, just five months later, with her back, hips and feet covered in agonising and sometimes untreated ulcers, Mrs Hoar died.
A post-mortem found she died of bronchopneumonia on July 12. However, the coroner concluded the terrible bedsores, also known as pressure sores, contributed “significantly” to her death.
The coroner, Graham Danbury, told Bupa managers he found the level of care provided to the 91-year-old as “seriously disturbing
After recording a narrative verdict, Mr Danbury said: “I have to say that in many respects I find the evidence seriously disturbing – evidence about the level of care to Gwendoline Hoar and the levels of supervision of the care given.
“I was struck by a comment by Maureen Collins (clinical services manager at the home) that in her opinion 95 per cent of pressure sores can be prevented.
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