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Your Mother Went Into a Waco Nursing Home to Be Cared For — and What Happened to Her Was Not Inevitable If you are reading this page, you are probably sitting with a folder of discharge papers, hospital records, and a death certificate that says something about infection and organ failure — and you are wondering whether what happened to your mother was just her body giving out, or whether someone stopped doing their job. We are going to answer that question for you the way we would answer it across a kitchen table in Waco at two in the morning: plainly, with the law and the medicine laid side by side, and with nothing held back. A 64-year-old woman was admitted to Lakeshore Village Nursing and Rehabilitation on Lake Shore Drive in Waco on December 28, 2021. She had already lost her left leg below the knee. She had diabetes, high blood pressure, progressing dementia, and she was bed- or wheelchair-bound and incontinent. Every one of those conditions made her more vulnerable — and under federal law, every one of them made the facility’s duty to protect her greater, not less. Within approximately two weeks, she had pressure ulcers…