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A federal jury in North Carolina entered its verdict in favor of the families of three nursing home residents who died at Blue Ridge Health Care Center<\/a>.\u00a0 The lawsuit filed for the wrongful deaths claimed these deaths were caused by the callous neglect of these and other nursing residents.<\/p>\n

The jury awarded both compensatory and punitive damages in the case. The suit alleged that the nursing home\u2019s medical staff chose not to properly monitor the patients, allowing them to remove their own breathing tubes without proper safeguards in place. The families alleged in these wrongful death lawsuits that the patients all required ventilator or tracheotomy tubes, which the residents were able to\u00a0 remove on their own.\u00a0 There was claimed to be little or no medical staff intervention to prevent residents from removing their ventilators or tracheotomy tubes.<\/p>\n

The jury entered the verdict in favor of the families of the nursing residents — Baird, Jones and Kee — compensatory damages of $50,000, $300,000 and $300,000, respectively, and punitive damages to each family in the amount of about $1.5 million.<\/p>\n

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A federal jury in North Carolina entered its verdict in favor of the families of three nursing home residents who died at Blue Ridge Health Care Center.\u00a0 The lawsuit filed for the wrongful deaths claimed these deaths were caused by the callous neglect of these and other nursing residents. 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