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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Tacoma senior living center has paid $500,000 to settle claims brought by the family of a 97-year-old woman that the facility's negligence led to her death.
The News Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/290cZeW ) Violet Moseson fell at her Merrill Gardens apartment in March 2014. Moseson's family says staff never checked on her and she wasn't found until a relative visited her the next day. They claim the fall led to the woman's January 2015 death.
Records show an alarm system residents use to check in every morning hadn't been activated in Moseson's apartment.
Merrill Gardens President David Eskenazy apologized to the family in a statement Monday and said changes have been made to prevent similar accidents from happening.
The company had initially argued that the delay in Moseson being found didn't cause her death.
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