A lawsuit has been filed against a Buffalo Township nursing home claiming a resident’s 2022 fall down a stairwell led to her death.

Lois J. Sayers, of New Kensington, filed the suit Monday, March 25, as the administrator of the estate of Barbara G. Sayers against Adult Living at Rosebrook.

The suit in Butler County Common Pleas Court contains wrongful death allegations and seeks damages in excess of $35,000 and a jury trial.

Barbara Sayers was admitted on Feb. 8, 2019, with dementia and osteoarthritis and needed a wheelchair to get around. She also fell regularly, according to the suit.

On May 8, she was unsupervised in her wheelchair when she fell down an unprotected stairwell, according to the suit.

She sustained a left periprosthetic femur fracture complicated by hemiarthrosis and hematoma and was hospitalized through May 12, according to the suit. A periprosthetic femur fracture is a broken bone around the implants of a total hip replacement, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ website OrthoInfo.

After her release from the hospital, she was admitted to the skilled nursing facility Concordia at Cabot where she also came under the care of Wound Healing Solutions of Pennsylvania and Delaware, Concordia Physician Practice, a doctor and three nurses, resulting in her developing a coccyx pressure injury, according to the complaint. The coccyx is the tailbone, according to WebMD.

The coccyx injury progressively increased in size and severity resulting in cellulitis, infection, osteomyelitis, hospitalization, surgery, a decline in health and her death on Oct. 4, 2022, according to the suit. Osteomyelitis is a bone infection, according to WebMD.

Her death certificate says her immediate cause of death was bacterial pneumonia with osteomyelitis as a significant contributing condition, according to the suit.

Adult Living at Rosebrook did not return a message seeking a response to the suit.

Lois Sayers intends to file a motion to consolidate this suit with a suit she filed in December stemming from the same alleged set of circumstances, according to the suit. The December suit was filed against Assisted Living at Rosebrook in Sarver, which has the same address as Adult Living at Rosebrook; Concordia at Cabot; Concordia Physician Practice; Wound Healing Solutions; and the same doctor and three nurses, and also seeks damages in excess of $35,000 and a jury trial.