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HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME ABUSED EX-COP, SUIT SEZ
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A RETIRED NYPD DETECTIVE died three years ago today after months of persistent bed sores and infections - and a lawsuit blames elder abuse and neglect at the hands of a Brooklyn nursing home and hospital. Abraham Ticknor was 87 when he died at Maimonides Medical Center after a series of hospitalizations for large ulcers that covered his body. "My dad wrote poetry. He was involved in the Freemasons. H e was very vital to the community," said Ticknor's daughter Diane Skier www.birkenstockonlinesale.com, who is suing Maimonides and Brooklyn's Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center. "It was very sad." Ticknor began living at the nursing home in the mid 1990s after suffering a stroke. His daughter says that beginning in March 2003, the geriatric center did nothing to prevent massive bed sores from developing, and at one point even put a shoe over a foot ulcer. She also charges in the lawsuit that a doctor gave Ticknor an overdose of the blood thinner Coumadin - an error that required a blood transfusion. Ticknor was also left to lie in his own excrement for days at a time birkenstock sale, she said. In what is possibly the most disturbing allegation, Skier claims in legal papers that Ticknor had some sort of "phone-like" cord inserted into his rectum at Maimonides, and that it remained there for days. Medical records show a Geriatric Center doctor acknowledging the cord after Ticknor's return to the nursing home after being hospitalized for six days. "It seems no one knows anything about the device," the doctor wrote. Skier contends the hospital first said it was a temperature probe Cheap Oakley Sunglasses, then changed its story to a heating blanket cord. "Since when do you place the cord from a heating blanket in someone's rectum?" she asked. Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center vice president Janet Rothman denied the charge. "There wasn't a phone cord," Rothman said before declining to elaborate, citing patient privacy laws. Maimonides spokeswoman Eileen Tynion said the hospital is "cooperating fully" and would not comment on specific allegations. "We continue to provide care set by all regulatory agencies," Tynion said. Skier's lawyer, Andrew Nitkewicz of Avelino & Associates, said he's filed three motions seeking to question doctors and nurses from the two facilities, but continues to get the runaround. "They are not following the court's orders," said Nitkewicz. "Whether or not they're sanctioned is up to the judge." Rothman said the nursing home is noting to block the interviews. "The attorneys and the court are deciding who needs to be depositioned. We are cooperating fully with this matter," she said. Calls to Kings County Supreme Court Presiding Judge Donald Scott Kurtz were not returned. This isn't the first time Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center has been cited for patients ulcers. In 2001, the state Department of Health fined the nursing home $4,000 over quality-of-care violations concerning pressure sores. "My father wanted to be kept alive. When I go looking for answers, I run into brick walls," Skier said. jkesnerTopics related articles?
