Nursing Home Patient Death Leads to Investigation, Three Arrests

July 28, 2011

The Texas Attorney General's Office is investigating claims of neglect at a Brownfield, Texas nursing home. Three people have been arrested after a 71-year-old patient died of hypothermia in February, 2011. The patient suffered from Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Surveillance video is believed to show the patient walked outside unattended in frigid temperatures; the patient was found dead several hours later.

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