State Fines Nursing Home Where Patients Drowns In Puddle In Front Of Facility
Wandering in a potentially deadly problem for nursing home patients with dementia and other medical conditions that make them unable to appreciate the dangers around them. While not a common problem, wandering from nursing homes puts particularly vulnerable patients at risk for harming themselves when they find themselves in the outside world with no one to look after them. Just 200 feet from the doors to the nursing home where she was a patient, a 92-year woman left the facility without the knowledge of the facility staff and managed to fall into a shallow puddle nearby and drown. Authorities from...
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Family Sues Florida Nursing Home For Death Of Wandering Resident
The family of a 68-year-old nursing home resident who wandered from the facility to his death, has filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit. The family of Antoine Saintil recently filed the lawsuit against Broward Institute For Long Term Care after Antoine want missing from facility on Christmas day. Search efforts by the facility to find Antoine were unsuccessful. By the time authorities found Antoine in a waterway, two miles from the facility, he had apparently drowned. Antoine Saintil's family faced a difficult decision that many families face every day when they placed him in the Florida nursing home--less than a...
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