Padgett v. Baxley & Appling County Hospital Authority

McFADDEN, Judge.

Nelda F. Padgett’s mother was an Alzheimer’s patient at a nursing home when she fell from her shower chair, suffered serious injuries, and died a week later. Padgett sued the nursing home1 on behalf of her mother’s estate for pain and suffering and as next of kin for wrongful death damages, alleging that her mother’s injuries and death were caused by professional negligence, ordinary negligence, and breach of contract, and also on the theory that her mother’s statutory rights as a nursing home patient under the “Bill of Rights for Residents of Long-term Care Facilities,” OCGA…