Families of 2 victims of Legionnaires’ disease sue Rocky Hill nursing home over water safety issues
Source: https://www.courant.com/, August 17, 2021
By: Zach Murdock
The families of two victims of Legionnaires’ disease at the same Rocky Hill nursing home over the past two years have filed lawsuits against the facility’s parent company Apple Rehab for failing to meet water safety standards designed to protect residents from the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria.
The complaints from the estates of Carlos Paez, who died in July 2019, and Angelo Gionfriddo, who died in April, both closely mirror the findings of state public health inspectors who concluded this spring that the Apple Rehab group did not develop or implement necessary safety measures and did not report repeated positive tests for the bacteria or confirmed cases of the disease to the state. Read more.
