An El Cajon woman has been awarded $1.6 million in a court settlement after being permanently brain damaged because of care she received at a county-owned nursing home, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Ruth Lomeo, 44, is unable to care for herself and has limited ability to communicate with her 9-year-old son and her mother, William M. Berman, her lawyer told the paper yesterday.
In July 2005, Lomeo was given an overdose of a pain medication, and nurses at Edgemoor Geriatric Hospital in Santee waited 20 minutes to call 911 when Lomeo began to have trouble breathing, Berman said.
Lomeo reportedly sustained brain damage from a lack of oxygen.
For more on this story, read the San Diego Union-Tribune article "County Settles Suit Over Nursing Home Care for $1.6 Million."
