State legislators are preparing to investigate a Grand Rapids nursing home for veterans that was sharply criticized in an audit released last month by the state’s Auditor General.
Governor Rick Snyder called the findings ‘deeply troubling,’ and the director of the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency, Jeff Barnes, resigned last month.
According to the report, some allegations of abuse at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans went uninvestigated by nursing home staff. There were other problems, too, including staff who falsely reported checking in on patients.
Michigan Public Radio reporter Jake Neher says the report also found that the privately-run center was ‘grossly’ understaffed:
Correction: The former head of the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency is Jeff Barnes, not Rick Barnes.