On December 18 th , the Corpus Christi Police Department responded to a welfare call regarding an elderly man in a wheelchair stuck on some grass on the 3300 block of Houston Street right after midnight.
Officers took the elderly man to Doctors Regional Hospital for further evaluation, learning the man was a dementia patient at Pelican Pointe Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center.
KRIS 6 Investigates learned the man, had just become a resident at the facility, and staff at the nursing home were not aware of his disappearance until contacted by authorities.
It is unknown, how long he was missing.
According to the Texas Health and Human Services, when an incident like this happens in a nursing home – it needs to be reported immediately.
A former employee of the nursing home, which KRIS6 has decided not to identify due to retaliation, says after the administrator found out about the patient leaving the facility – he wanted to change the scenario and say the man left against medical advice.