Make Nursing Homes More Like Home: Medicare

When searching for a nursing home beware Sun Healthcare's facilities where my mother was harmed by known broken equipment they refused to repair while under a California state injunction. Even the Dept of Justice turned a blind eye. My mother suffered a horrific death, when after a stroke they caused she could not swallow for the remainder of her life, nine more months. She caught MRSA from the facility in the end and it compromised her system, causing a steady decline that lasted months. Then they cheated me out of compensation. I brought claims against my attorney Daniel Leipold for malpractice for neglecting to ask for wrongful death, elder abuse and pain & suffering, then he died 2 weeks later. I eventually won that malpractice case. SUN cheated California taxpayers out of millions of dollars in fines from the injunction, (Claude Vanderwold, Asst. Attorney General, said this facility was not subject to the $2.5 Million fines the DOJ fined SUN in Sept 2005) -SUN HEALTHCARE GROUP INC's board of directors recently refused to discuss with me yet I provided medical records that confirm this manslaughter by their medical director who quit over the lack of response from management.

Deborah Calvert, Newport Beach of CA 6:49PM June 19, 2009