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, Mr. Hayden Thorne, right behind ManorCare, his nursing home […]
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 Wednesday and was found dead hours later about two miles away, according to Euclid police. Staff at […]
(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, both of Pandora, were sentenced Friday in northern Ohio's Ottawa County. They pleaded […]
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 Campbell, the son of Phyllis Campbell, a patient who died after walking out of […]
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 met by two rows of the family of Phyllis J. Campbell, the […]
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 investigation found. Read the rest of the article here: http://www.whio.com/news/local/woman-was-outside-nursing-home-hours-before-dying-cold/6S3UZYPRN9avxD8tnJqdDO/
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. Read the rest of the article as posted on The Morning Journal.
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 The Dickson Firm, we have seen residents who elope from the nursing home […]
