Woman says dad with dementia was let out of hospital without notice

PETERSBURG, Va. — A Petersburg woman is demanding accountability after she says her father, who suffers from memory loss, was discharged from a hospital without notification to family, subsequently went missing late at night, and ended up with a head injury while wandering the streets.

Nancy Johnson recalled the fright she felt on Halloween night after learning her 74-year-old father Robert Johnson was out on the streets when she thought he was in a hospital.

“It was very scary, very scary,” she said. “I was a wreck— a nervous wreck.”…

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