Georgia malpractice type allegations
Pressure-ulcer and wound-care malpractice allegations often concern repositioning, pressure-relief equipment, wound consultation, infection prevention, debridement, and whether skin breakdown was addressed before it worsened.
The examples below are limited to public complaint summaries where pressure wounds, pressure ulcers, wound-care delay, wound infection, osteomyelitis, or nursing-facility and hospital wound-prevention failures are central to the allegations. Sepsis may appear as an alleged consequence in some examples, but this page focuses on wound prevention and wound-care failures rather than general infection diagnosis.
Read the linked case summary for the fuller allegations-only discussion.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Emory University Hospital staff failed to follow pressure-injury prevention protocols during a 2024 admission, allowing a bedbound patient to develop Stage 3 and Stage 4 pressure ulcers.
This page concerns a public wrongful-death medical-malpractice complaint alleging that Douglasville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center neglected a paralyzed, bed-bound resident, allowing pressure ulcers and trauma wounds to develop or worsen during a nine-month admission.
This page concerns a high-risk patient housed at Doctors Hospital of Augusta while awaiting nursing-home placement, where pressure wounds allegedly were repeatedly noted but not adequately treated or prevented from worsening until a deep infected wound developed and became chronic and debilitating.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown failed to prevent and properly treat a severe sacral pressure injury in a post-surgical patient.
This page concerns a public amended complaint alleging that Fulton Center for Rehabilitation and related providers failed to prevent, identify, and treat pressure ulcers before the resident developed fatal sepsis.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a skilled nursing facility in Tucker, Georgia failed to prevent the worsening of a resident’s pressure injuries and failed to address her malnutrition before her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that nursing care and documentation at Memorial Health University Medical Center did not prevent pressure injuries in an immobile patient after a traumatic spinal injury.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that an Atlanta nursing home, its corporate owners, and an administrator failed to prevent and treat a resident’s pressure ulcers during a 2025 stay that the filing says led to her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a nursing home did not prevent, assess, or properly treat a resident’s pressure ulcers before her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a nursing home let a resident’s pressure wound reach the point of suspected bone infection.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that hospital nurses did not properly manage a catheter and pressure-ulcer wound care before the patient’s death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a hospital and a long-term acute care facility failed to prevent and treat a patient’s pressure wounds. The complaint alleges the neglect contributed to her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a Wellstar hospital’s skilled-nursing unit failed to prevent and treat pressure ulcers during a 2021 stay. It says chronic understaffing contributed to the neglect.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a skilled nursing facility did not prevent or treat a resident’s pressure wounds before her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that hospital and clinic staff caused and then worsened a pressure injury while treating an infant’s leg fracture.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a Fulton County nursing home concealed a worsening pressure ulcer from a resident’s family.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a children’s hospital did not timely treat pressure wounds caused by EEG monitoring electrodes. It alleges staff then misdiagnosed the resulting infections in a severely disabled child.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging a physician did not personally tell parents their child’s x-ray was normal or to remove his splint.
