Kentuckians have rotted in their beds inside Salyersville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a low-rated Magoffin County nursing home owned by a consortium of New York investors, according to lawsuits and a deeply critical state inspection last year that led to $447,485 in fines.
Documents describe how residents were allowed to suffer agonizing, gruesome pressure sores that decayed their flesh and led to infection and death.
At least 11 lawsuits filed by different families against the 142-bed nursing home since 2021 have alleged that pathway of harm for their loved ones — pressure sores, infections and death — although other injuries and illnesses sometimes were cited, too, such as malnutrition and unexplained broken bones.
A May 17, 2025, inspection by a survey team from the Office of Inspector General at the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services also criticized the nursing home for allowing residents to suffer from pressure sores that led to serious injury and death.
Residents were neglected in their beds as a matter of routine, inspectors said, with clinical records falsified by staff to make it wrongly appear that care plans were being followed.
