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WARD v. NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

No. SC 89392.

275 S.W.3d 236 (2009)

Patricia WARD, Individually and In Her Capacity as Plaintiff Ad Litem for Nona Woods and Darrell Woods, Individually and In His Capacity as Plaintiff Ad Litem for Nona Woods, Respondents, v. NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, et al., Charleston Manor Nursing, LLC, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

January 13, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon W. Jordan, Stephen M. Strum, Thais Ann Folta, Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, P.C., St Louis, for appellants.

Brian G. Brooks, Greenbriar, AR, David Terry, Terry Law Firm, L.L.C., St. Louis, Deborah Truby Riordan, Wilkes & McHugh, P.C., Little Rock, AR, for respondents.

MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Judge.

Plaintiff Patricia Ward's mother, Nona Woods, was placed in NHC Healthcare, a nursing care facility, in May 2003. At the time of Woods' admission, another of her daughters, Bobby Rouse, signed an "Admission and Financial Contract," which contained an arbitration provision. Woods' signature also appears on the agreement. Woods died in October 2003.

Ward filed a wrongful death suit against the nursing care facility in 2005. The NHC defendants...

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