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The Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center

The Warrensville Heights police are investigating the death of an elderly woman after she was found unresponsive outside of The Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center on Christmas Eve. According to the Warrensville Heights police repor… Read More
Elopement in Ohio Nursing Home

What is Elopement?

If you say the word “elopement”, most people think about a couple running off to get married. In the nursing home industry, elopement refers to a resident who leaves the nursing home unattended. Some nursing home residents are lucid. They… Read More

Bedford nursing home resident dies after apparently wandering outside, slipping on ice

A 92-year-old woman has died after authorities say she apparently wandered outside of the Bedford nursing home she was living in and fell down in the cold elements. According to a police report, nurses from Woodside Senior Living on Rockside Road loc… Read More

Missing assisted living facility resident found dead outside; caregivers respond

An 82-year-old woman reported missing from her assisted living facility on Tuesday, Nov. 8, was found dead in a wooded area behind the facility. Joan L. Meredith, 82, was a resident at The Merriman, an assisted living and skilled nursing care facilit… Read More

Missing Ohio nursing home resident found dead outside

An 82-year-old woman reported missing from her nursing home on Tuesday, Nov. 8, was found dead in a wooded area behind the facility. Joan L. Meredith, 82, was a resident of The Merriman, an assisted living and skilled nursing care facility at 209 Mer… Read More

Family wants answers after resident found dead in woods behind Akron assisted living facility

An 82-year-old resident of an Akron assisted living and nursing care facility was found dead from hypothermia in a wooded area behind the building Tuesday morning, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner. Joan Meredith had dementia and her de… Read More

Missing 86-year-old Ohio nursing home resident found dead in walk-in refrigerator

A woman was discovered dead in a walk-in refrigerator at an Ohio assisted living facility after she went missing early Tuesday morning Read More

Family plans to sue ManorCare after their 80-year-old father escaped the nursing home and was hospitalized

PARMA, Ohio (WOIO) – Lisa White said she got a call earlier this month from her brother that made her heart drop. “Dad’s missing and I said, how can he be missing, he’s in a nursing home?” she said. White said the staff found her father… Read More

Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner identifies 59-year-old Euclid man found dead in freezing cold

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office released the identity of a man found dead in the freezing cold Wednesday morning behind a Euclid school. Alan Anderson, Jr., 59, of Euclid, left a rehabilitation center some time late Tuesday or early W… Read More

2 ex-nursing home workers get jail for elderly woman's death

(AP) Two former employees of an Ohio nursing home accused of failing to check on a resident who wandered outside and froze to death have been sentenced to 60 days in jail. The Courier reports 37-year-old Rachel Friesel and 20-year-old Destini Fenbert… Read More