2 residents killed after wandering away from facility
Here is an article about a tragic case where a nursing home failed to supervise residents who ended up walking away from the facility and was killed in a car accident. For the second time in six weeks, a resident of the Dover Woods health care facility has been struck and killed by a car.
Township officials expressed frustration at their inability to come to an agreement over safety measures for the facility's residents with its owners, the Erez Health Care Realty Company LLC of Lakewood.
A meeting had been scheduled for mid-January, but it was canceled it because the company wanted its corporate defense lawyer to appear. No new date has been scheduled. The facility doers not seem concerned that two of their residents have died as a result of their failure to properly supervise their residents as they are required and paid to do.
In December, police were called to Dover Woods for more than 37 incidents ranging from residents wandering along the highways picking up cigarette butts to the harassment of customers at a nearby shopping center. The Police Department has responded to the facility 27 times this year.
