A jury has awarded a $5.5 million verdict against a former Palos Heights nursing home in the death of a woman who lost her supplemental oxygen when power went out in her room.

       Eighty-year-old Bettye Patterson died in Providence Palos Heights in 2016 after, her family said, she had broken her hip the previous winter.

       Patterson suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and was on oxygen through a nasal cannula continuously, the lawsuit by her survivors stated.

       When her daughters visited one Sunday, they discovered a power outage in her room, and alerted a nurse.