Lawsuits accuse center’s director of medical fraud with Alzheimer's misdiagnoses
TOLEDO -- When Mary K. Smith was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, it was suggested she and her husband begin volunteering at the adult day care operated by the Alzheimer’s Association “so they could see where Ms. Smith was heading in the near future.”
Deborah Schmidt received the same devastating diagnosis last year and was told she could “expect her mind to deteriorate in the coming years.”
In lawsuits filed recently in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Schmidt, and two other former patients of the Toledo Clinic Cognitive Center say they were misdiagnosed with Alzheimer’s by the center’s director, Sherry-Ann Jenkins, who they were led to believe was a neuropsychologist. Mrs. Schmidt of Whitehouse, Mrs. Smith of Lambertville, Victor J. Gonzalez of Maumee, and Kathryn S. Wynn of Perrysburg each claim Ms. Jenkins told them they had Alzheimer’s — a diagnosis that prompted them to seek out second opinions. In each case, physicians assured them they did not have the form of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking, and behavior.
Attorney David Zoll, who filed the complaints, said he is concerned other people out there “still believe they have a serious degenerative brain disease that’s going to kill them. Everyone who was seen by this woman and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s needs to get a second opinion.”
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