KFOR News 4
BY ALI MEYER
JULY 25, 2014
CLAREMORE, Okla. – There are more than 300,000 veterans in Oklahoma, and seven state-run facilities for those vets in their golden years.
The family of one veteran recently contacted NewsChannel 4 after a horrific situation at the vet center in Claremore, Oklahoma.
Seaman First Class Richard Morrison enlisted in the Navy when he was just 15 years old.
He fought World War II in the Pacific and today fights a different battle; dementia.
His family noticed about a year and a half ago that he was showing signs of Alzheimer’s and needed help.
Morrison’s family tried live-in nursing care for almost two years.
They eventually decided his best option was the Claremore Veterans’ Center.
He had been here just five weeks when he was attacked by another resident in the dementia wing.
Richard Morrison’s case is just the latest in a string of complaints out of the Claremore Veterans’ Center in recent years. In fact, conditions were so bad at Claremore a few years ago the state legislature asked the State Health Department to step in. The state now conducts regular, unannounced visits to all the vet centers around the state.
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