PORTLAND, Ore. -- Two former nursing home workers were found guilty Monday of failing to get medical help for a patient who was dropped while being transferred from a wheelchair to a bed and died shortly thereafter.

The patient, 60-year-old Linda J. Ober, broke both of her legs and died less than a week after the fall in February at Gateway Care and Retirement Center in Northeast Portland.

Former employees Suzanne Ruddell, 58, and Cammy Nye, 53, were indicted last spring.

Nye was found guilty of misdemeanor reckless endangerment. Ruddell was found guilty criminal mistreatment, the Oregonian reported.

Sentencing was set for Friday.

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Rick Harding, administrator of the Portland nursing home, said two of the employees were fired, and a third accused employee resigned shortly after Ober died.

Harding said he saw Ober and chatted with her in the days after her legs were broken. He said she didn't mention anything about being in great physical pain.

A $3.5 million wrongful death suit was also filed by Ober's daughter against Gateway Care and Retirement Center, claiming workers ignored the woman's pleas for help and tried to persuade her that the spill was just "a bad dream."