COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — When 67-year-old Leroy Cole suffered a stroke that left him with a limited ability to speak or move, his family members said they had no choice but to take him to Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
“We didn’t want to go there, but it was the only option that we had,” his son Diante Harper said.
But they said they became concerned by what they saw, and smelled, inside the nursing home.
“One thing that really, really, really stuck out to me is the aroma in the air,” Harper said. “I didn’t know exactly what it was, so like, later on as things progressed, my father got worse, and he ended up having bed sores … that was the smell that I got. That’s the smell that I always smelled walking into this facility.”…