BELLEVILLE — A man claims a nursing facility's failure to treat his father's infected pressure ulcers and pneumonia resulted in his death.
Jarrett Arnold, as independent administrator of the Estate of James Arnold, Jr., deceased, filed a complaint (complaint part two) Jan. 5 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Aperion Care Mascoutah LLC and Vohra Wound Physicians of IL., S.C., alleging negligence.
The plaintiff alleges in his complaint that his father, James Arnold, Jr., was transferred from the Aperion Care facility in Fort Wayne, Ind., to Aperion Care in Mascoutah on Feb. 2, 2019. He was then taken by ambulance to Memorial Hospital in Belleville on Feb. 17, 2019, where he died from septic shock from infected pressure ulcers and pneumonia.
Jarrett Arnold claims his father suffered pressure ulcers "all over his body."
The plaintiff claims the defendants failed to prevent his father from developing pressure ulcers, failed to treat the ulcers to keep them from becoming infected and failed to keep the decedent from contracting pneumonia.
The plaintiff seeks compensation of more than $50,000 and all other just relief. He is represented by Daniel Katzman of Katzman & Sugden LLC in Belleville.
St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 21-L-0005