Southwest Health Systems/Westmoreland Home Health v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

SILVESTRI, Senior Judge.

Southwest Health Systems/Westmoreland Home Health (Employer) petitions for review of an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed the referee’s decision granting Lois Peterson (Claimant) compensation benefits for the permanent loss of the use of her left eye.

Claimant was employed as a nurse’s aide caring for home-bound persons. On June 6, 1988, a combative patient suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease struck Claimant in the left eye. Claimant sought medical treatment a week to ten days later when her eye closed shut preventing her from…