Report: Facility where man in wheelchair died receives ‘below average’ rating
WEST HARTFORD – A report on Bishops Corner Skilled & Nursing Rehabilitation, where a patient with dementia rolled down a hill in his wheelchair and died last week, has a “below average” rating, according to an inspection on Medicare.gov.
Both the state and the West Hartford Police Department are investigating the death of Percy Sumner, an 88-year-old patient who rolled down an embankment in his wheelchair in front of the Bishops Corner nursing home on 2432 Albany Ave., police said.
West Hartford police said Sumner rolled 44 feet down a hill, through a picket fence and over a 3-foot wall before hitting his head on the concrete.Read Story
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