By Caroline Lewis
A New York law firm filed two class-action lawsuits today against two
New York City nursing homes affiliated with Sentosa Care, a large
for-profit nursing home group. The lawsuits, brought on behalf of a
former patient and the surviving brother of another patient, allege that
understaffing at the facilities has led to infections, unsanitary
conditions and other examples of inadequate care in violation of state
and federal law.
The lawsuits name as defendants the Bronx-based Bay Park Center for
Nursing and Rehabilitation in the Bronx and Brooklyn-based Seagate
Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, all the owners of the facilities and
Sentosa Care itself.
"We've gotten many, many complaints from residents [of these
facilities] about the horrendous conditions people were left in," said
Jeremiah Frei-Pearson, a partner in the law firm Finkelstein,
Blankinship, Frei-Pearson and Garber, which represents the patients in
both cases. "People were left in urine and waste for way too long.
Federal data also corroborated that these homes are horrific and our own
investigation corroborated the conditions."
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