‘We loved her so much, too much’
Brooklyn nursing home ordered to pay $750k after death of longtime resident
BY KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
A nursing home owned by
an infamous real estate fl ipper
is being forced to pony
up $750,000 in damages to the
family of a now-deceased resident
— as the facility failed to
provide basic health services
to her before she died.
A jury at the Kings County
Supreme Court found that the
Linden Center for Nursing and
Rehabilitation in East New
York had violated 90-year-old
Olive Davis’s rights and failed
to provide proper care that
she was entitled to under state
public health law, which resulted
in her death.
In her fi nal months at the
Linden Center, Davis, who
was not mobile on her own,
developed a severe pressure
wound on her lower back because
staff were not shifting
her position every few hours,
as doctors had ordered.
By the time Davis’ daughters
found out about the wound
soon before her death, it was
deep, badly infected, and
needed intravenous antibiotic
treatment. She was transferred
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fi rst to Kings County
Hospital and then to Calvary
Hospital, where she passed
away in January 2017.
The Linden Center was
called Ruby Weston Manor
until it was purchased by the
Allure Group, by way of shell
company Alliance Health
Property, LLC, in 2011.
The Allure Group was
founded in 2011 by Joel Landau,
who, in 2015, paid the
city more than $16 million to
remove deed restrictions for
Rivington House, a nursing
home in lower Manhattan,
promising to purchase the facility
and maintain its function
as a nursing home.
In early 2016, with the deed
restriction lifted, Landau sold
the property to a developer,
who planned to turn the lot
into luxury condos, for $116
million, walking away with a
$72 million profi t.
Later that year, CABS Nursing
Homes, a nonprofi t nursing
home chain, fi led suit against
Landau, seeking to overturn
the 2015 sale of CABS Bed-Stuy
to the Allure Group after discovering
that rather than keeping
the nursing home running,
as promised during the sale,
the Allure Group was shuttering
the facility and selling the
lot to a developer, who have
since announced a 14-story
mixed-use building on the
site. CABS alleged that Allure
had forced residents out of the
building with little warning,
resulting in more than one
premature death. The Kings
County Supreme Court dismissed
the charges in 2017.
Six years at the Linden
Center
Davis lived on her own until
2011, when her dementia
started to get worse, said her
daughter, Deborah Roberts
“She started, like, leaving
the house and walking away,
just going out,” she said. “I
The Linden Center for Nursing and
Rehabilitation has been ordered to
pay the family of Olive Davis (left)
after a jury found the facility guilty
of negligence.
Google/Family of Olive Davis
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