Carter v. Prime Healthcare Paradise Valley LLC

Opinion

IRION, J.

Plaintiffs Elaine Carter,1 Newgene Grant and Roosevelt Grant, Jr., appeal a judgment entered after the trial court sustained a demurrer without leave to amend. Plaintiffs sued defendant Prime Healthcare Paradise Valley *401LLC, doing business as Paradise Valley Hospital (the Hospital) and Paradise Valley Health Care Center, Inc. (the Center),2 for the death of their father, Roosevelt Grant (Grant), on theories of elder abuse, willful misconduct and wrongful death. On the Hospital’s demurrer, the trial court ruled that plaintiffs had not alleged conduct that qualified as elder…