In Churn of Assisted Living Deals, An Island of Misery

by A.C. Thompson  ProPublica, Dec. 31, 2013, 2:54 p.m.  The one-story beige building on Southwest Hill Road in McMinnville, Ore. – an old mill town between Portland and Salem – has seen plenty of trouble over the years of its operation as an assisted living facility.

Two men have been jailed for committing sex crimes inside its walls. Residents of the facility have repeatedly assaulted one another. There has been at least one case of severe, near-fatal neglect. To be sure, then, the building has been something less than the refuge it has held itself out to be for local seniors, many of them afflicted with dementia. State records have chronicled the damage.  Read more at http://www.propublica.org/article/in-churn-of-assisted-living-deals-an-island-of-misery