Two weeks before Joan Cody died, a Kansas employee urged state regulators to investigate alleged abuse and neglect at her northeast Kansas memory care facility.
“I don’t normally reach out unless I believe (state) intervention is necessary, but I must bring a serious situation to your attention,” wrote Hector Rodriguez, a long-term care ombudsman, in a Jan. 12 email.
Cody, a 94-year-old Kansas Citian, had dementia. For the past three months, Rodriguez had helped her family raise alarms about her care at Santa Marta in Olathe, first with facility administrators and then with state regulators…