Nursing-Home Elopement Wrongful Death: 89-Year-Old Richard M. Cox Wandered from Pine Acres Rehabilitation & Care Center Undetected Despite a WanderGuard Bracelet — the Same Elopement Failure State Inspectors Had Cited Two Weeks Earlier — Fell Two Blocks Away, Fractured Two Cervical Vertebrae and Died November 4, Attorney911 Holds the West Des Moines Facility and Its Out-of-State Ownership Stack, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the WanderGuard Alarm Logs, Exit-Door Surveillance and Staffing Sheets Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, CMS Resident-Rights and Supervision Rules Under 42 CFR Part 483, Iowa’s Wrongful-Death Doctrine and the Negligence-Versus-Malpractice Question That Governs Damage Caps, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
West Des Moines Nursing Home Elopement: When a Facility Doesn’t Know Your Father Is Gone If you are reading this because someone you love walked out of a nursing home and no one noticed, you already know the part that keeps you awake at night. It is not that he left. People with dementia try to leave — that is a known, documented, regulated risk that every nursing home in America is trained and equipped to prevent. The part that stops your heart is that nobody knew he was gone. Not a nurse. Not an aide. Not a single person on the staff of the facility you trusted to keep him alive. The first people who knew were the ambulance crew — and they had to come tell the home your father was lying on the ground two blocks away because a stranger found him. We are going to tell you exactly what that means in the eyes of the law, what it is worth, and what is already disappearing while you decide what to do. This page is legal information, not legal advice — but it is written by the senior trial attorneys at Attorney911, and everything here is…