Highland Home: Immediate Jeopardy Elopement Violation - MS
Highland Home is a nursing facility in Ridgeland, Mississippi, with 101 residents....
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Highland Home is a nursing facility in Ridgeland, Mississippi, with 101 residents....
The order had been placed on December 11, 2024, at 6:30 in the morning....
A physician's order dated December 9, 2025 directed staff to admit R28 to hospice....
The resident, identified in inspection records as Resident 1, was eventually confirmed gone by reviewing closed-circuit television footage....
That was the first thing they found....
A stroke of that nature affects everything: a person's ability to grip, to walk, to use the limbs they've relied on their entire lives....
The resident, who had been placed on the secure unit specifically because he or she was known to wander, was last seen around 8:00 to 8:10 p.m....
A cognitive assessment from January 2026 gave the resident a BIMS score of 3, indicating severe impairment....
The inspection, completed March 30, 2026, was triggered by a complaint....
Entering hospice qualifies as one of those shifts....
She had a physician order dating back to February 3 requiring continuous oxygen at four liters per minute....
pylori gastritis, a bacterial stomach infection....
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 17, came to St....
It wasn't contained to resident rooms....
The facility's own guidelines on physical restraints are cited in the inspection findings....
The inspection, completed March 31, 2026, was filed as a complaint....
That was how the facility operated until the burn happened....
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident #29, has lived at the facility since February 2014....
Nobody had told her anything was wrong....
The inspection report does not name the resident who eloped....