HOUSTON – A Fort Bend County nursing facility faces a wrongful death lawsuit from a woman who claims that her mother succumbed to injuries sustained from a fall more than a year ago, recent Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas records indicate.
Charlotte Kinnard sued SSC Missouri City Operating Co., LLC, doing business as First Colony Health and Rehabilitation Center, on Jan. 8, faulting the defendant for preventing the late Minnie Kinnard’s fall from a wheelchair on July 6, 2016, and her passing the next day.
Recent court documents allege that the facility provided the elder Kinnard, who was a resident because of her dementia, provided minimal monitoring of her and failed to adequately report changes in her medical condition.
Having become severely hydrated and deemed a fall risk, the suit explains, the decedent fell out of her wheelchair, hit her head on the floor, and suffered a traumatic brain injury, from which she died.
Consequently, the younger Kinnard seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.
Patrick Powers of the law firm Powers Taylor LLP in Dallas is representing the complainant.
Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas Case No. 4:18-CV-0055