HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (Legal Newsline) – An Arkansas rehabilitation center is facing a wrongful death lawsuit that says it waited 12 hours after a man recovering from hip surgery fell to get him to a hospital.
Catherine Simpson filed the case in Garland County Circuit Court on behalf of the estate of George Simpson against St. Vincent Hot Springs Rehabilitation Hospital. George was a known fall risk after breaking his hip who required a two-person assist for transfers, the suit says.
But he fell on Jan. 11, 2020, and rebroke his hip, the suit says. He underwent a new surgery and died 15 days after that second break.