SEATTLE – The City of Seattle and a home health care agency wrote a check for $600,000 to a woman with multiple sclerosis after she nearly died in their care.
The money is to settle a lawsuit alleging the woman was neglected in her wheelchair, left for so long that she developed life-threatening bedsores.
Doctors diagnosed Patricia Leonard of West Seattle with multiple sclerosis when she was 24. By the time she was 27, she was in a wheelchair.
Before that, Patricia was a Boeing machinist, a ski instructor and a scuba diver.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Woman with MS wins settlement for life-threatening care
From KING5-TV: