Courtyard Estates at Hawthorne Crossing, an assisted living center in Bondurant, where a resident froze to death in 2022. (Photo by Clark Kauffman/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
The administrator of an assisted living center, accused of incompetence in an incident that resulted in an elderly resident freezing to death outside the facility, will retain her state license subject to 10 hours of educational training.
According to state records, Dwala Marie Lehman was the administrator at Courtyard Estates at Hawthorne Crossing in Bondurant in January 2022 when 77-year-old Lynne Stewart froze to death after leaving her room, exiting the facility, and then falling to the ground just outside the door…