A Puyallup group home left a 95-year-old where she fell. Ten days later, she was dead
A 95-year-old woman was left where she had fallen on the floor of a Puyallup adult care facility for over two hours before caregivers called for help in November, Puyallup police said Thursday.
The woman broke her femur and died 10 days later in a hospital.
On Thursday, the home was shut down, two people were arrested for criminal mistreatment and five elderly residents of the home were relocated, according to Puyallup police spokesman Capt. Dan Pashon.
After the woman’s fall, her granddaughter reported suspicious circumstances surrounding the injury.
Caregivers at the home said the victim was injured during an assisted fall with a caregiver. The woman died at Good Samaritan Hospital following complications from the injury, Pashon said.
Puyallup police detectives investigated the incident with the state Department of Social and Health Services.
The family had placed a “nanny cam” in the woman’s room after they had concerns from a previous incident involving a fall. When they reviewed footage from the camera, they saw that the victim fell during the night while she was alone, Pashon said.
The caregivers responded to her cries for help, but left her on the floor and did not summon medical aid until about two and a half hours after she fell, Pashon said.
On Thursday, Puyallup police detectives served a search warrant at the care facility in the 2800 block of 29th Street Court Southeast.
Two people were booked into Pierce County Jail on criminal mistreatment charges. A third suspect was not at the facility when the warrant was served, Pashon said.
Representatives from the Aging and Long-Term Support Administration assisted in placing the remaining five elderly residents into other facilities.
The home’s state license was suspended.
This story was originally published February 7, 2020 at 9:18 AM.
