Nursing Home

Wichita police are investigating after two women tried to abduct an 80-year-old man from a nursing home. It happened around 9 a.m. on Sunday at the Wichita Nursing Center in the 2800 block of S. Hillside.  Police say the women wanted to check out the man and his prescription drugs.  The nursing home staff did a check and determined that the women were not authorized to take the man out of the center. They were not allowed to take him, and they left in a car that police say was registered to a third person who was "connected to the nursing home.

A Wichita nursing home is under investigation after a discovery by doctors. “They noticed there were maggots in his shoes and open sores on his feet,” says Lt. Doug Nolte. The man, a resident of Deseret Nursing and Rehabilitation on South Woodlawn, was taken to St. Francis hospital for chest pains. Doctors there made the discovery. “Anytime you find maggots on someone's shoes…that's going to be alarming,” says Nolte. FactFinder 12 looked into the Deseret's past and found problems.

One Wichita nursing home has decided to have residents rehabbing from strokes, bypass surgery, and more keep up and active...by getting down. At Medicalodge, Otis Dailey likes to say, "Don't nothin' get old but the clothes. "  His job is to get creative with resident rehab. "I don't like to see nobody hurting or in pain or anything like that," says Dailey, "and just to see these people get out of bed and see these people move around and see these people try to carry on a semi-normal life, it makes me feel good.

Wichita police credit a citizen for helping them nab copper thieves. Police tell us the man was looking out his window in the 2800 block of S. Hillside when he saw three people coming out of an abandoned nursing home. They were pushing a shopping cart with what he thought was building supplies. The man called police and officers were able to catch all three suspects, who are now accused of stealing copper from the building.

(WICHITA, Kan.) It could change what doctor you see and have nursing homes fighting to stay open. Kansas governor mark Parkinson announced yesterday a 10% cut in state Medicaid funding. That money helps low income patients pay for doctors visits and covers a majority of many nursing home residents costs. Now, those organizations are looking at what they can do to make up for the loss. Lunchtime at Lakepoint nursing center, where the coffee's as hot as the conversation.

YOU CAN WATCH THIS VETERANS DAY STORY TONIGHT ON EYEWITNESS NEWS AT 10:00! by Cliff Judy (HALSTEAD, Kan.) Her husband was part of the D-Day invasion, and she traveled the country for years as a dedicated Army wife.  You can probably understand why 87-year-old Marie Hale has a passion for her country. It's Hale's morning routine that caught the attention of those around her.  When she moved into the Halstead Health & Rehab nursing home, she realized the building didn't have a U.S. flag out front.

by Kim Hynes (WICHITA, Kan.) Tell lawmakers how budget cuts are impacting your life. That's what the Central Plains Area Agency on Aging is asking senior citizens and their caretakers to do. That's because many are losing services because of state budget cuts. 78-year-old Annie Evans lost her 16 hours of home based assistance. Those hours gave her daughter Celia Bell a break. Evans lives with her daughter and cannot be left alone. "It's really limiting us a lot, we're not able to just get up and go," Bell said.

This Independence Day, many of us thought about the people who fought for our freedom for the last 235 years. Maybe you BBQ'd with a vet, or maybe they spent the holiday alone. But there is a new program in Kansas that puts injured or ill veterans back into a family and home setting -- just not their home or family. From the outside, the house is no different from any other on the block. The house looks typical from the inside too.   But ask Darrell Hacker the difference.

Time now for Eye on Your Money with Financial Advisor Bryce Matteson of the local office of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. We are wrapping up our discussion started last week asking the question "Does your spouse know what your retirement plans are?" And the answer we are learning from a recent survey of 502 married couples is unfortunately "no" they do not. Recapping the survey, it was commissioned by a large investment firm in Boston and it found, among other things, that 61% of the couples disagreed on where they would draw their primary source of income in retirement and 58% disagreed on whom their spouse should turn to for financial guidance in the event of the other spouse's death.

by Kara Sewell (WICHITA, Kan.) "I'd be dead in the water, that's what," says Dolores Dick. Dolores Dick tells it straight. "I feel like I would be parked in a nursing home," says Dick. She knows exactly where she would be without the support of Wichita's Senior Services. Which is why Dolores is sitting front row at Senior Services Family Forum after hearing about potential program cuts. "We are very worried about what's going to happen to services for seniors in Wichita," says Laurel Alkire.

Wichita police credit a citizen for helping them nab copper thieves. Police tell us the man was looking out his window in the 2800 block of S. Hillside when he saw three people coming out of an abandoned nursing home. They were pushing a shopping cart with what he thought was building supplies. The man called police and officers were able to catch all three suspects, who are now accused of stealing copper from the building.

Deseret Nursing and Rehabilitation in Wichita was cleared of wrongdoing Tuesday. Two weeks ago, the facility on south Woodlawn was under investigation after police say a patient there was found with open sores and maggots on his feet. "It's been very frustrating but it's part of doing business and we just kept going forward and doing what we needed to do to meet the needs of all the residents, including that individual," said Melisa Lang, Administrator. The state investigated and found nothing to substantiate the claim.

The Kansas Department on Aging has revoked the license of a Wichita nursing home. State inspectors found multiple violations at the Wichita Nursing Center on South Hillside. The state says the facility failed to provide adequate bed and bath linens for all 58 residents.  The deficiencies range from failing to provide bank statements to residents about their personal funds to failing to develop facility policies against abuse, neglect and exploitation to failing to assist residents with their activities of daily living.

A Wichita nursing home is under investigation after a discovery by doctors. “They noticed there were maggots in his shoes and open sores on his feet,” says Lt. Doug Nolte. The man, a resident of Deseret Nursing and Rehabilitation on South Woodlawn, was taken to St. Francis hospital for chest pains. Doctors there made the discovery. “Anytime you find maggots on someone's shoes…that's going to be alarming,” says Nolte. FactFinder 12 looked into the Deseret's past and found problems.

This Independence Day, many of us thought about the people who fought for our freedom for the last 235 years. Maybe you BBQ'd with a vet, or maybe they spent the holiday alone. But there is a new program in Kansas that puts injured or ill veterans back into a family and home setting -- just not their home or family. From the outside, the house is no different from any other on the block. The house looks typical from the inside too.   But ask Darrell Hacker the difference.

A faulty furnace has a west Wichita nursing home moving residents to a different part of the building. Firefighters were called to the Sandpiper Bay retirement home around 4:20. When they got there they found a smoking furnace. There are no reports of injuries or flames. Eyewitness news has a crew headed to the scene. Expect more on this developing story as it comes in.

Wichita police are investigating after two women tried to abduct an 80-year-old man from a nursing home. It happened around 9 a.m. on Sunday at the Wichita Nursing Center in the 2800 block of S. Hillside.  Police say the women wanted to check out the man and his prescription drugs.  The nursing home staff did a check and determined that the women were not authorized to take the man out of the center. They were not allowed to take him, and they left in a car that police say was registered to a third person who was "connected to the nursing home.

Emergency workers, community members and students helped evacuate a northwest Kansas nursing home Tuesday afternoon. The 48 residents of St. Francis' Good Samaritan Village were taken to the nearby high school. There are no reports of injuries. The residents are staying at other nursing facilities or with family. The fire started around 1:20 Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters and medical personnel from throughout Cheyenne County helped fight the fire.

There seem to be plenty of cross country journeys this summer, but try doing it in a wheelchair...on life support...for a world record. That's just what Matt Eddy's trying to do.  The 33-year-old muscular dystrophy patient rolled through Wichita Monday.  He started his 3,300-mile journey with his therapist and a photographer on the east coast in June, and he hopes to roll into Long Beach, California, in October. "I want to see the country," says Eddy, "and there's no better way than at six miles an hour.

One Wichita nursing home has decided to have residents rehabbing from strokes, bypass surgery, and more keep up and active...by getting down. At Medicalodge, Otis Dailey likes to say, "Don't nothin' get old but the clothes. "  His job is to get creative with resident rehab. "I don't like to see nobody hurting or in pain or anything like that," says Dailey, "and just to see these people get out of bed and see these people move around and see these people try to carry on a semi-normal life, it makes me feel good.