9news
@9news·551K subscribers·83.5K videos
Man with Alzheimer’s sent on one-way flight among scores of patients stranded in hospitals
Posted
November 23, 2018
Views
26,103
Likes
60
Comments
66
Engagement
0.48%
November 23, 2018
26,103
60
66
0.48%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
5:43Now PlayingWithin the bustle and organized chaos of Denver's massive airport, an 80-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease named Jerry Ellingsen was found wandering alone after traveling with his small dog from Fort Myers, Florida.
Jerry didn’t know where he was or why he was in Denver.
Police tried contacting his daughter and wife, neither of whom would pick him up, so officers were forced to call an ambulance that took him to a nearby hospital.
A three-month long 9Wants to Know investigation is uncovering a growing health care epidemic where hundreds of people like Jerry are abandoned every year at metro-area hospitals. The epidemic is costing hospitals and in some cases, taxpayers, millions of dollars a year.
Watch full STRANDED special
Subscribe to NEXT
Subscribe to Fix This
Stay connected:
9NEWS Website
Snapchat: Denver9NEWS
9NEWS (KUSA) is located in Denver, Colorado.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
