Lake Worth Manor denied Appeal

A judge has denied a new trial for the owners of a Lake Worth nursing home who late last year were ordered to pay nearly $2 million to the family of a former patient — marking one of the largest jury awards statewide for a wrongful death case involving a nursing home.

Read more... about Lake Worth Manor on 12th Avenue South whose name has been changed to Oasis.

Nursing Home Death reaps big reward

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Big awards going on in Lake Worth lately. Just last week the city commission awarded $1.6 million to Greater Bay LLC for non-performance at our Lake Worth beach...the city said it had a 50/50 chance of winning the case. Of course, when the suit was taken on three years ago, it was said to be a "slam dunk."

Now we have another case. This one involved a death at the nursing home once operating under the name Lake Worth Manor on 12th Avenue South. Prior to that in 2010, their was a different suit filed that charged that the nursing home engaged in racketeering to defraud Medicare and Medicaid and preyed on vulnerable adults. The suit said that Lake Worth Manor failed to provide adequate treatment to patients or improperly kept them until they developed other diseases that could restart government payments.

Read about their current problem--

Lake Worth Nursing home must pay $1.8 million for patient's neglect and eventual death

Lake Worth Manor

Lake Worth Manor located at 12 Avenue South and directly across from S F Street, is in the news—defrauding Medicare and Medicaid and preying on the elderly.

It's bad enough to be old, but old, sick and abused is even worse. Nothing surprises me when it comes to nursing homes. I worked for a man years ago in Palm Beach who owned a string of nursing homes. I always suspected it was just a cash cow type of business with the government picking up the “padded” bills.

Lake Worth Manor was where JFK sent my Mom right after a stroke. She was there for a few months where she got worse, never to recover. It, of course, may be all coincidental but I have ill feelings for this nursing home as well as nursing homes in general. Don’t ever send a loved one to a nursing home if you can have any other alternative. They, for the most part, are nasty places. Also, don't take a hospital's recommendation. Check out the facility for yourself. For the elderly, you are ignored and in some cases, abused. You are there to die. You are a dollar sign only. If you don’t have a family member looking after you day and night, chances of death are quicker.

This particular facility is one of the worst around having a 1 star rating. It is in the bottom 20% of all nursing homes in the area. On the outside, it looks great. Even the interior is nice. The rooms are spacious and the food was good back in 2004. The problem I had was that there was never anyone around or concerned enough to do the basics for the patients. Ringing that little buzzer on the bed was totally ignored.

Read about Lake Worth Manor, its unsavory staff and the racketeering charge.