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Reports Finds Deficiencies In Nursing Home Practices

Last updated on Thursday, March 15, 2007

(MARION) - A State Health Department report has found deficiencies in a Marion nursing home’s policies following the February death of a resident, who left the facility unnoticed and froze to death.

76-year-old Clarence Elliott was found outside the door to a courtyard area. He died of hypothermia.

According to the department report, two of five errors at Bradner Village Health Care cited "immediate jeopardy" situations.

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