Ohio Nursing Home Resident Involved in Fatal Hit-and-Run
Eighty-seven year old Florence Warren's family moved her to Good Samaritan Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Avon, Ohio earlier this month because of the facility's secure lock-down ward. Ms. Warren was in the beginning stages of dementia and had a history of running away from care centers. Her daughter, Linda Meldrum, said, "That was my overriding, number one concern right from the get-go, that they would take her on in a locked unit. We didn't want it to be a prison, of course. We just wanted her to be safe."
Ms. Warren walked out of the nursing home around 8:00 p.m. on March 13, 2009. She was walking down Detroit Road when a car struck and killed her - just ten days after she was admitted to Good Samaritan. The driver kept on going. Ms. Warren, who was supposed to be living in the locked-down area, somehow was either able to disarm a security door or the door was not adequately secure. Reports claim that the facility was short-staffed that night and that there was a loud alarm going off, but no one went to find out why.
There is a $10,000 reward for information about the hit-and-run.
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