Nursing home dumped man unable to care for himself in lobby of independent living facility
November 24, 2018
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as posted by the channel9Wants to Know found 113 at-risk adults were stranded in Denver-area hospitals on a single day in September. Hospitals said 31 of those adults were left by another facility, including assisted-living and nursing homes who won't let the patients come back.
For a nursing home in Greeley called Kenton Manor, one man’s seizures and behavior became such an issue, administrators made the decision to defy state regulations and get rid of the resident with no proper plan of action, according to state inspection reports obtained by 9Wants to Know.
Kenton Manor gave the man a 30-day notice that he was being discharged, but he had nowhere to go, the reports said.
Still, on Oct. 6, 2017, a driver and a social worker who worked for the nursing home took the resident to an independent living facility where he used to live but no longer had a lease, then left the man in a wheelchair in the lobby.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment occurrence report stated in part that nursing home employees were aware “that the resident was unlikely to be able to live independently” and “demonstrated an inability to take care of himself, was not capable of understanding and acting upon his rights.”
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