CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Cuyahoga County grand jury is expected to hear the case of an 84-year-old woman who died Christmas Eve at a Warrensville nursing home.
Amber Henderson, 31, of Willoughby Hills was charged in Bedford Municipal Court with involuntary manslaughter, gross neglect of a patient and tampering with records in the death of Alvera Meuti. Her case was bound over Thursday to a county grand jury.
“This is infuriating,” said Paula Mueller, the founder and executive director of Elderly Advocates, a Parma nonprofit that pushes for greater care in long-term facilities. “Someone died who shouldn’t have. I just can’t imagine how she died.”
WKYC, a news partner of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, reported that Henderson has been charged in Meuti’s death at the Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center in Warrensville Heights. The station reported that she died of hypothermia.
Meuti was found outside the facility on a patio porch. She had been missing for 10 hours, the news station reported. The station reported that a nurse had checked on Meuti about 8:40 p.m. Dec. 23, and she was sitting in her wheelchair inside the building.
The station reported that Henderson checked on Meuti about an hour later but could not find her. About 6:30 a.m., the facility realized Meuti was gone and notified police. Officers found her outside.
Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer reached out to Justin Weatherly, Henderson’s attorney, seeking comment.
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