Care Home fined $25000 over neglect of MRSA wound

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    According to Journal Star files and the department's report, Catherine G. Martin, 95, of Peoria, formerly of Princeville, died on April 9 from infection and multiple organ failure, because of or as a consequence of an infected leg wound. Martin had been a school teacher, a farm wife, an election judge and served as supervisor of Princeville Township. She was admitted to the nursing home in March 2006 after she fractured an ankle while living at Independence Village in Peoria. She also had other health problems, including a "soft spot" on her heel, which the department alleges was not properly cared for in the nursing home. She was taken to Methodist Medical Center on April 4 with gangrene to the right heel, and found to have MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant infection in the heel.