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West Des Moines, Iowa Nursing Home Neglect: Nine Days of Screaming, a Destroyed Record Book, and Twenty Federal Violations If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your mother, your father, your grandmother is in a nursing home in West Des Moines — or because she was, and she is no longer alive — you already know more than most people will ever understand about what it feels like to trust a facility with someone you love and discover that trust was broken. You may have heard about what happened at the skilled nursing facility on Grand Ridge Drive. A woman complained of severe pain. A nurse identified the problem — an anal fissure — and reported it to an advanced registered nurse practitioner, who ordered ointment without ever walking into the room to examine her. For nine days, no one assessed her condition. When staff finally found her screaming audibly down the hallway, with blood pressure so low her body was shutting down and bowel movement emerging from her vaginal area, it took an hour and a half to get an order to send her to the emergency room. She was in septic shock. She had gangrene near…