In the winter of 2011, the 81-year-old had gotten out of the hospital after being treated for an abnormal heartbeat. Doctors prescribed him a few days of rehab.
"He was alert and happy when he went in there," remembers his daughter Karen Rach.
"And how did he leave?" Channel 7's Ross Jones asked.
"He left in a stretcher in a diabetic coma," she responded.
Karen remembers standing over her father’s hospital bed, hoping he’d wake up. But at Caretel, according to state records, his diabetes had gone untreated.
"We were hoping we’d be able to get a chance to talk to him again," Karen recalls.
Her father died just days after Thanksgiving. His family says a hospital helped saved his life, but his nursing home ended it.
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