Maine’s health department rarely investigates when residents wander away from care facilities

Maine’s health department rarely investigates when residents wander away from care facilities

After a state investigation into an incident where a resident left Frankfort Assisted Living without staff noticing, the facility became one of two residential care facilities that have been sanctioned by Maine’s health department for failing to prevent their residents from wandering away. Tara Rice for ProPublica Late one morning in May 2021, a resident … Read more