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2 sent to jail for roles in nursing home patient’s death
September 29th, 2018
OTTAWA — Family members of a 76-year-old woman who froze to death last winter outside a Pandora nursing home spoke Friday morning at separate sentencings for two former nursing home workers. “… No one was there to help her,” said Steve Campbe…
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Plea deal offered in Pandora nursing home death
September 21st, 2018
OTTAWA — The final nursing employee charged in the death of a resident in January appeared in the Putnam County Court of Common Pleas Thursday for a final pre-trial hearing before facing a jury trial. Megan E. Schnipke, 31, of Columbus Grove, was m…
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Woman was outside nursing home 8 hours before dying in cold
February 20th, 2018
TOLEDO, OHIO — A nursing home resident with dementia and a history of wandering off was outside in temperatures hovering around zero for about eight hours before staff members noticed she was missing and found her dead from hypothermia, a state inv…
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Woman with dementia was outside Ohio nursing home 8 hours before dying in cold
January 25th, 2018
A nursing home resident with dementia and a history of wandering off was outside in temperatures hovering around zero for about eight hours before staff members noticed she was missing and found her dead from hypothermia, a state investigation found.…
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Elopement Can Lead to Serious Injury
December 27th, 2017
What is elopement? The word evokes an image of two people running off and getting married. However, in the context of a nursing home, elopement is when a resident leaves the nursing home unaccompanied. This could lead to very serious consequences. At…
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