SALISBURY, N.C. — An adult care facility with three locations in Salisbury no longer has a state-issued license to operate, Channel 9 learned Thursday.
Channel 9 reported Tuesday that Glenn Homes has a history of state and federal violations, including staff members not properly administering medications.
Helen Corpening of Salisbury said her 92-year-old father, who has dementia, was at a Glenn Homes facility in April. She said a caregiver left her father alone outside.
A Silver Alert was issued.
A neighbor spotted the World War II veteran 39 hours later.
He had fallen into a 3½-foot-deep culvert but managed to survive.
"I don't have the words for how upset we are," she said. "You just don't leave a person like that."
She said she complained to the Rowan County Department of Social Services, and the state investigated.
“Glenn Homes Unlimited was not licensed at the time of your father’s admission and cannot be held accountable by Rowan County DSS and the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation,” a DSS letter to Corpening said.
She said she wants to know why they were operating if they didn’t have a license and why the state issued three temporary licenses to Glenn Homes last July, several months after the incident involving her father.
“They should have been shut down when I filed that complaint. More should have been done." she said.
Inspectors have been documenting problems at Glenn Homes since late summer.
Staff members hadn't passed state exams and others failed to make sure medications were given properly.
Channel 9 stopped by all three facilities Thursday and saw workers inside, but they wouldn't talk.
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