There are conflicting reports over what actually happened to 65-year-old Virginia Hubbard, a resident at the Grande Oaks Nursing Home in Ohio. Virginia was recently discharged from the facility for failure to pay anything for the services she received for approximately a year and a half. Although the discharge may have been warranted, what allegedly happened next, if true, is unacceptable.
When the Grande Oaks Nursing Home brought Virginia to her house, no one answered the door. Ambulance service workers proceeded to knock on neighbor Alvin Scott’s dorr and told him that if they couldn’t leave Virginia with him, she’d have to wait on the front porch of her husband’s house. Scott said she was just wearing a hospital gown and nothing else. He said he couldn’t leave her out in the cold so he took the elderly woman in.
The nursing home’s story, however, is quite different. Grande Oaks alleges that Virginia was, indeed, brought to her house after being discharged. However, when no one answered the door, they say the individual was transferred to a hospital and was not left at any house.
Clearly, one side in this story is not telling the truth and investigators should continue to dig until the truth is found. Moreover, if it is found that Grande Oaks did, in fact, leave Virginia at a neighbor’s house, their care practices and standards should be closely examined, to see if incidents like this one are more prevalent at the facility.
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