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Families Dash To Get Residents From Assisted-Living Home

LIVONIA, Mich. (WWJ/AP) -  "We gotta get out, pack up everything by six o'clock. Just crazy," said Jim McCann, who received a call around noon Wednesday to pick up his wife from Ashley Court, an Alzheimer's and Special Care Home in Livonia.

State officials say they suspended the license at the Detroit-area assisted living home because of neglect and repeated violations found by the Michigan Bureau of Fire Services -- dozens of people were forced to leave the facility.

In one case, a resident who had fallen was left on the floor overnight and developed kidney and circulation problems as a result. They say staff  falsified documents claiming they had checked on the patient, but surveillance video shows not only did they not check on the fallen resident, but no one else that night reports WWJ's Stephanie Davis.

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Ashley Court - Assisted Living. (WWJ/Stephanie Davis)

The campus was packed with cars Wednesday as people moved possessions and relatives out of the home.

Some residents were transported by ambulances.

Gabe McCann picked up his 85-year-old mother after getting a phone call around noon. He says moving the elderly from place to place "creates setbacks" for them.

There was no immediate comment from Ashley Court. No one answered the phone Wednesday night.

 

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