CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Health Facilities Commission voted Wednesday to accept a civil penalty raised against an assisted-care living facility in Chattanooga where a dementia patient was able to wander away.
According to state documents American House Hamilton Place on Gunbarrel Road is at the center of this complaint.
The commission found one of the assisted-living residents with dementia left the building and walked a quarter-mile down Gunbarrel before someone from the community saw and brought them back.
The consent order says American House Hamilton Place failed to keep track of this resident’s location at all times…