Assisted living facility charged with staggering neglect, manslaughter, swindle

Back in 2017, a 72-year-old Marine Corps veteran moved into his new home. It was a place called Chappy’s Golden Shores: an assisted living facility in Hill City, Minnesota, run by Theresa Lee Olson and several members of her family. He would need plenty of care and attention. He’d been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, pressure ulcers, a case of pneumonia that never quite went away, and the lingering effects of a stroke.

His name hasn’t been released to the public, but in a lengthy complaint filed against Chappy’s on Monday, he was simply called R.M. Quick warning—the story of his time there does not end well for him, and the details are pretty disturbing.

By 2018, he’d developed a bedsore his tailbone. Hospice care nurses told the staff at Chappy’s he would have to be repositioned every two hours so he didn’t spend too much time sitting on his wound, and of course, it would have to be kept clean.

Former Chappy’s staff say that isn’t what happened—that R.M. was left to sit on the sore for hours, even left to stew in his own soiled underwear. There were nights when everyone went to sleep and R.M. was left to languish until morning, days when he’d be dumped in a recliner and end up “soaked in urine and waste from his mid-back to his knees,” according to the complaint.

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