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 not having alarms on all doors, and for not conducting background checks on all its employees.
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