Nursing-Home Wrongful Death in Durham, North Carolina: Palestine Howze, 71, Died at Treyburn Rehabilitation Center with a Stage 4 Pressure Ulcer to the Bone and Sepsis Signs After Her Family’s Repeated Demands for Hospital Transfer Went Ignored While Duke and UNC Hospitals Were Miles Away — Attorney911 Pursues the Operating Company and Its Corporate Parent, We Pull the Staffing Sheets, Wound-Care Charts and Call-Light Logs Before They Are Revised and the Wrongful-Death Filing Window Closes, CMS Resident-Rights Standards Under 42 CFR Part 483, North Carolina’s COVID Immunity Shield and Forced Arbitration Are the Barriers We Fight Through, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
When the Nursing Home Refused to Send Her to the Hospital If you are reading this because someone you love died in a nursing home — not from COVID, but from the thing the facility was supposed to prevent: the bedsore that went to the bone, the infection no one told you was coming, the hospital transfer they promised and never made — you already know the worst part is not the death. It is the discovery, afterward, that the people you trusted to care for her knew it was happening and chose not to act. You are not overreacting. You are not being unreasonable. And the guilt you carry — the voice that says you should have pushed harder, called more, refused to leave — that voice is wrong. The failure was not yours. Federal law treats a bedsore as a red flag, not bad luck. The facility has to prove, from its own records, that nothing it did or could have done would have stopped it. When the turning logs are blank and the wound went to the bone, the law puts that wound on the facility’s side of the ledger. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law…