A pending wrongful death lawsuit filed by Leona’s family in Clayton County, Georgia, claims the DNR order placed on her was fraudulent.
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That’s because Leona signed a DNR, or “Do Not Resuscitate” order, which prohibits medical staff from performing life-saving measures, like CPR, if someone’s heart stops. Attorney Mike Prieto represents the family in the lawsuit against Roselane’s former medical director, Dr. Sara Sambandham, the physician ultimately responsible for Leona’s care.
The social worker said none of that happened when she worked at Roselane for 21 years. In Leona’s case, her DNR was photocopied with two doctors’ signatures already on it before the form was ever given to Leona. The social worker who was deposed said social workers allowed patients to make that determination without a doctor’s evaluation. There was another problem with Leona’s DNR form. According to court records, one of the doctors’ signatures included a physician who resigned from the facility before Leona was admitted into the facility.
Through her attorney, Sambandham declined to be interviewed, but denies any wrongdoing in court filings. According to a transcript of a deposition with the doctor conducted in August, when asked about the DNR orders, Sambandham said, “they look photocopied.” Once considered one of the largest long-term care operators in the county, SavaSeniorCare only runs a handful of facilities in the Southeast and Midwest. According to areleased to Skilled Nursing News, which covers the long-term care industry, Sava said that the pandemic drove its decision to sell off or shut down its properties.
Grace Schara is shown in a family photo. In 2021, she was hospitalized with COVID-19 in Appleton, Wisconsin. While in the facility, she had a medical emergency, and her parents said she was not given life-saving treatment due to a DNR order, which they say they did not sign off on.While born with Down Syndrome, her father, Scott, said Grace’s ability disability never slowed her down.
“Absolutely not. Why would we ever request it? It makes no sense. We were expecting our daughter to get out of there. We’re not expecting her to die,” Schara said in an interview with InvestigateTV this past September. Grace’s parents said none of that happened with their daughter. The hospital and doctor declined repeated requests for an interview. Grace died on October 13, 2021, with a DNR order placed in her medical chart her parents said they never approved.
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