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Rochester Assisted Living Negligence: When a Physician’s Order Was Ignored and a Resident Died You are reading this because someone you love is gone, and the reason they are gone does not make sense to you. A doctor told the facility exactly what to do. The facility did not do it. Your family member choked not once, not twice, but three times over sixteen days — and after the third time, they did not come home. The Minnesota Department of Health investigated and wrote it down in a public report: this was neglect. Not a miscommunication. Not an accident. Neglect. We are Attorney911. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases, and we take Minnesota cases. This page is for the family of a resident who died at Cascade Creek Memory Care in Rochester — and for every family in Olmsted County who needs to understand what the law does when an assisted living facility fails at the most basic duty it owes a vulnerable adult: following the doctor’s orders. What happened here is not complicated. A dementia resident choked. A doctor ordered that all food be cut into pieces smaller than a quarter. The Minnesota Department of Health found no…