Last year a 46-year old patient walked away from the Unique Living Center, a nursing home in Shelby, North Carolina. The patient remains missing, and the state has closed the facility. Pending, though, are an additional $60,000 in fines to include penalties for not properly supervising patients; for not prohibiting smoking inside the building; for […]
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The caregiver faces charge of battery, which becomes a felony offense when the victim is a law enforcement officer, a child under age 14, mentally or physically disabled, a school employee, a correctional officer, or an endangered adult, which includes people at least 18 years old who can’t provide self care because of mental or
The family of Sarah Wentworth wants answers after her body was discovered outside of the suburban nursing home where she lived, Arbor of Itasca, which has a one star rating, on a 5-star federal government scale. That’s the lowest possible rating, meaning the facility is, by government standards, much below average. The family was not