Nursing Home Caregivers Sentenced After Leaving Alzheimer’s Patient Outside

Two of the three employees of a Grand Junction assisted living facility charged in the exposure death of an Alzheimers patient recently received short jail sentences.

That patient, 86-year-old Hazel Place, was found outside Grand Junction Cappella Assisted Living and Memory Care’s building on June 14, 2021. She who was reportedly left unattended in the summer heat for six hours.

Prosecutors with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office told CBS4 that temperatures that day reached 100 degrees.

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