Diabetic patient suffered severe dehydration at facility

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Plaintiffs’ decedent Payton Moore, 75, resided in a nursing home for approximately one year before transferring to a different one in December 1999. The names of the facilities were not disclosed for this report. 

While Moore was residing in the first facility, his diagnoses were diabetes mellitus, left endarterectomy, two myocardial infarctions, two strokes, left leg paralysis, uric acid stone, renal insufficiency, multi-infarct dementia, anemia secondary to chronic renal disease, left uretral stint and a PEG tube.

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