Staff at a Concord nursing home gave a 55-year-old paraplegic patient a cup of bleach-based wound-cleaning solution to wash down his morning pills, the man claimed in a lawsuit against the facility.

Steven Sharp, 55 and paralyzed from the waist down, checked in at Diablo Valley Post Acute in April 2024 for six weeks of post-surgery rehabilitation, the lawsuit in Contra Costa County Superior Court said. On his first morning, a staff member handed him a clear plastic cup holding five or six ounces of clear liquid to go with about a dozen pills, and he drank it down with the medications, the lawsuit filed last week alleged.

Sharp felt immediate burning in his mouth and throat, the lawsuit said.

“He alerted the staff that they had given him ‘bleach’ to drink, and that his mouth and esophagu

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