The Gallatin Nursing Home are facing a wrongful death lawsuit. At the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic the Gallatin Nursing Home instructed emergency crews to remove all of the elderly residents from the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing after the virus had somehow entered into the building and quickly spread. Before the outbreak at the Gallatin Center, federal regulators had instructed nursing homes to screen all residents and employees before allowing them in to help keep COVID out. One evacuated resident, Clara 'Ruth' George Summers, 89, died and 40 others were hospitalized. National Guard members conducted mass testing of all people in the facility. At the time, 59 more residents and 33 more staff tested positive for COVID-19. Ultimately more than 160 people from the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing ended up testing positive for the virus and more than two dozen elderly residents died.