ATLANTA — In April 2018, Charles Milne picked up the phone to hear that his 73-year-old sister was struggling for her life.
A nurse from her Marietta-based nursing home said his sister was having trouble breathing, he said. He begged over the phone for the nursing home to send her to a hospital. But the nurse said Leona Milne had signed a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order and had declined going the hospital, he said.
Leona Milne died that day after she stopped breathing and didn’t receive CPR. But her brother later learned that her DNR order had been improperly signed, a lawsuit alleges. The suit alleges it was part of a pattern of more than 190 do-not-resuscitate orders that were incorrectly created by the nursing home’s workers.
