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Tragedy and Death at a Virginia Nursing Home

Dan Frith
Dan Frith
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Posted by Dan FrithAugust 17, 2008 1:19 PM
Tags: nursing home, negligence, elder abuse, elopement
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What a sad story! The body of a 71-year-old man missing from Bowling Green Healthcare Center (Caroline County, Virginia) nursing home since August 3 has been found. Robertson suffered from dementia. The resident, Richard Eddie Robertson, had been missing for 12 days.

How does a nursing home lose a resident? Do you think this facility had secure exterior doors with alarms? I don't and this type of tragedy, called an elopement, happens more than you can possibly believe...or accept.

It will be interesting to see if the facility is held accountable for this preventable and unnecessary death!

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Tom James
Posted by Tom James
August 17, 2008 9:38 PM

he real tragedy is the sheriff fought hard to get project lifesaver to our county. The Board of Superv isors would give him the measly 6 thousand to get it started so residents of the county stepped up and gave him the money along with the folks at Project Lifesaver giving free training and equipment.This facility is just a couple blocks from the sheriffs office where they could have gotten bracelets for their patients with wandering problems and been able to find him in minutes. truly a tragedy that did not have to happen and the staff at the facility along with his "guardian" need to be held accountable.More ...

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