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Nursing home staff accused of letting elderly woman freeze to death alone in her room
UK Daily Mail ^ | 9/6/2025 | Alyssa Guzman

Posted on 09/06/2025 8:05:09 PM PDT by fruser1

Cynthia 'Cindy' Pierce, 73, died of hypothermia after being rushed to the hospital in Austin on February 17, 2021, with her body temperature reading 94.2 degrees, according to court documents viewed by Daily Mail.

Care staff at Renaissance Austin Assisted Living Facility allegedly left her window open after changing her out of soiled clothing and bedding the morning Winter Storm Uri hit the city.

When they left the room, the window remained open and staff did not check on Pierce until the afternoon, the documents say.

They only knew something was wrong with Pierce when her daughter, Holly Ferguson, got a call from the hospital asking about a do-not-resuscitate order, according to KXAN.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: eldercare
Seems to me that these places are a waste. If you can't afford to have a nurse visit or stay in the home, you're probably screwed.
1 posted on 09/06/2025 8:05:09 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

I remember Winter Storm Uri like it was yesterday.


2 posted on 09/06/2025 8:07:28 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: fruser1

73 doesn’t seem elderly.


3 posted on 09/06/2025 8:14:46 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: fruser1

Death is the ultimate health care “cost containment”.


4 posted on 09/06/2025 8:17:04 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: fruser1

Certainly if they are staffed by didndunuffins...


5 posted on 09/06/2025 8:47:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: alternatives?
> 73 doesn’t seem elderly.

It's not. (I'm 73.)

6 posted on 09/06/2025 8:48:45 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Secret Agent Man

** staffed by didndunuffins... *

or illegal alien replacement fake citizens.


7 posted on 09/06/2025 8:52:05 PM PDT by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: fruser1

They only knew something was wrong with Pierce when her daughter, Holly Ferguson, got a call from the hospital asking about a do-not-resuscitate order, according to KXAN.


Why wasn’t Holly taking care of her instead of shoving her off to a nursing home?

Just another symptom of the disease that’s killing our society. Children should take care of their parents in their old age.


8 posted on 09/06/2025 8:54:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: alternatives?

Maybe this lady had early dementia.
What I don’t get is since the patient died in 2021, why is this case not closer to conclusion if not completed by now?


9 posted on 09/06/2025 9:04:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Surrounded_too

Yup


10 posted on 09/06/2025 9:53:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lee martell

Sometimes people need around-the-clock care that kids can’t provide due to lacking expertise and needing to support the household. The state doesn’t pay well if you’re a caregiver.

She was in a nursing facility, which says to me she needed 24/7 nursing care available. Obviously, she still didn’t get it.


11 posted on 09/06/2025 10:26:21 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Or Pakistanis.

Cost savings and diversity you know.

“Lie back and think of Mecca”


12 posted on 09/07/2025 3:24:33 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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“””Sometimes people need around-the-clock care that kids can’t provide due to lacking expertise and needing to support the household. The state doesn’t pay well if you’re a caregiver.””””

My wife and I take care of our son who needs constant attention due to brain cancer. He has needed constant care since he was 34. I quit working to be available for whatever needs to be done. We are older so the house is paid off and we weren’t deep in debt. If this happened to a younger couple they would have a very tough time. And there will come a time when we don’t have the ability to care for him.
I have no idea about the state paying a caregiver or what the amount is.

I know that care facilities can be very expensive and maybe hard to get into.


13 posted on 09/08/2025 6:33:26 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: fruser1

typically understaffed with not so competent help.


14 posted on 09/08/2025 6:35:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I can easily see this mistake being made. My bet is that the facility is understaffed and the staff who are there really don’t care that much about the patients. This patient was on the schedule to be revisited in four or five hours and no one looked in before that.


15 posted on 09/08/2025 6:49:24 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: dayglored

Me too 83.


16 posted on 09/08/2025 8:04:21 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: dfwgator

Let’s not guilt-trip the daughter. The late mother at 73 was not that old, so her daughter was probably still working, trying to catch up after raising little kids, and possibly now has adolescent or grown kid(s) struggling in today’s economy. Our entire economy has shifted away from a single income (of the dad) being enough to raise a family, not even to mention the high rate of family breakup before the kids are launched.


17 posted on 09/08/2025 8:09:35 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“We’re redoing DC parks, all new grass. I’m good at grass; I have a lot of golf courses.” —DJ Trump)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“the staff who are there really don’t care that much about the patients”

That is the key.

Management of those facilities need to fire employees who are just punching a clock.


18 posted on 09/08/2025 8:13:11 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: dayglored

Me too am 83.


19 posted on 09/08/2025 8:36:08 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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Children should take care of their parents in their old age.

I do take care of my 81 year old dad. However, with his high blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, and as of Nov. 2024, his left leg amputation below the knee, it’s very difficult.

I do wonder if he would get better care in a home, but knowing him, I don’t think so. He’s able to get from bed to wheelchair, and roll around the house to the master bathroom and take a bath, goes outside to smoke his cigars on the porch, and even cooks and does dishes sometimes.


20 posted on 09/08/2025 9:53:15 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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