
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, September 23, 1994                   TAG: 9409230135
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

NURSING HOME OWNER SETTLES SUIT OVER DEATH

A Salem nursing home has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of an elderly woman who died one year after wandering away and falling in the home's parking lot.

Medical Facilities of America, which owns Camelot Hall Nursing Home, agreed to pay $75,000 this week to avoid a trial, according to papers filed in Roanoke Circuit Court.

A petition states that Dorothy Rayo Gross, 80, who had Alzheimer's disease, was allowed to walk out of the home in October 1992. Gross fell in the parking lot and suffered a broken hip and other injuries that "contributed to her death on Oct. 18, 1993," the petition stated.

In settling the matter, Medical Facilities did not admit any liability, according to Tommy Joe Williams, a Roanoke lawyer who represented Gross' family members.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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