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Lawmakers on four different Michigan House and Senate panels picked through a scathing audit of a veteran’s home in Grand Rapids Thursday.
The audit, released last month, shows employees and supervisors at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans lied about checking on patients who may have fallen, higher ups didn’t properly look in to allegations of abuse and neglect and the facility was woefully understaffed.
James Robert Redford, interim director of the state’s Veterans Affairs Agency, says not having enough people to cover a given shift still remains a problem.
However the home is working to fix who reports to who when there are abuse complaints and to ensure residents are checked on if they trigger a fall alarm.
The hearing was the first of many, with the end goal of recommending policy changes to ensure the home improves its care.
