Article: Survivors of Lost Loved Ones Tell Stories of Trust Broken by Nursing Homes.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 14--They died painful, preventable deaths and left behind families tormented by their loss.

They are victims of poor care in nursing homes, a cross section cut from the fabric of America -- mothers and fathers, war heroes and homemakers, black and white.

The survivors now not only grieve for their loss but also struggle with misdirected guilt over whether they could have prevented the deaths.

Four of these families sought justice in courts of law and received cash settlements from nursing homes. The settlements required that the names of the homes and the amounts of ...

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