Juliet Clifford,a Director of a Nursing Home in Queens,NY was arrested Saturday June 8 2013 for not reporting a dementia patient missing from her facility on June 26th.
It was not reported until June 30th to police that 74 year old Alan Frazier had been missing. According to the report, when asked what happen, Clifford lies to police stating that Frazier left on his own, against the advice of medical staffing. Now I don't know which side of the bed Ms Clifford woke up on, but it's not up to a patient with dementia to make decision on their own.
There was absolutely no reason for her to neglect her responsibilities in reporting this. Patients walk out of homes all the time, but they are mostly caught as they are leaving. But to go home night after night knowing that an elderly man,not in his right mind, is out on the street where he could walk in front of a car and not report it is just shameful.
I was a caregiver for my dad for years and this is one of the reason we as a family didn't put my father in a nursing home.We felt that he needed attention 24/7 and we all know that there is just not enough staff members to be one on one with a patient all day, unless they are hired by family to do so.
Not only is this Ms Clifford fault, it's also her staff under her.Each CNA in a nursing home have their own patient to take care of. There are also Registered Nurses there that CNAs have to report too.The question is, how long did it take his care provider to know he was missing and report it to a senior staff member? I know Ms Clifford is the person that covered this up by lying to police, but the D.A. in this case should not stop with her. They need to go after everyone who knew this man was missing and failed to report it.
Let's open up a discussion in the comment section.Do you believe there should be more staff members charged in this case if they knew the man had been missing and failed to report it?
It was not reported until June 30th to police that 74 year old Alan Frazier had been missing. According to the report, when asked what happen, Clifford lies to police stating that Frazier left on his own, against the advice of medical staffing. Now I don't know which side of the bed Ms Clifford woke up on, but it's not up to a patient with dementia to make decision on their own.
There was absolutely no reason for her to neglect her responsibilities in reporting this. Patients walk out of homes all the time, but they are mostly caught as they are leaving. But to go home night after night knowing that an elderly man,not in his right mind, is out on the street where he could walk in front of a car and not report it is just shameful.
I was a caregiver for my dad for years and this is one of the reason we as a family didn't put my father in a nursing home.We felt that he needed attention 24/7 and we all know that there is just not enough staff members to be one on one with a patient all day, unless they are hired by family to do so.
Not only is this Ms Clifford fault, it's also her staff under her.Each CNA in a nursing home have their own patient to take care of. There are also Registered Nurses there that CNAs have to report too.The question is, how long did it take his care provider to know he was missing and report it to a senior staff member? I know Ms Clifford is the person that covered this up by lying to police, but the D.A. in this case should not stop with her. They need to go after everyone who knew this man was missing and failed to report it.
Let's open up a discussion in the comment section.Do you believe there should be more staff members charged in this case if they knew the man had been missing and failed to report it?
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