Assisted Living Facility Closed, Residents Want Answers
By: Kayleigh Klaustermeier
Updated: November 20, 2010
Thirteen residents at the John Breaux Assisted Living Center are now left with no place to call home. The facility announced Thursday they would be closing down after the department of health and hospitals performed an investigation.
Residents say they were questioned by DHH about living conditions and the facility's food. Shortly after being questioned they learned the facility was to be shut down because the power bill wasn't paid.
Starley Beard placed her father in the assisted living center nearly two years ago, and she is shocked by the sudden change.
"It just all come on us at once. What do you do? Its like being thrown out into the streets, says Beard.
DHH officials are locating places for the residents to go. Options given to the residents were other nursing homes and assisted living facilities, the Salvation Army, or they could wait for police. Everyone had less than a day to relocate and had to be out by Friday afternoon.
Residents say they were questioned by DHH about living conditions and the facility's food. Shortly after being questioned they learned the facility was to be shut down because the power bill wasn't paid.
Starley Beard placed her father in the assisted living center nearly two years ago, and she is shocked by the sudden change.
"It just all come on us at once. What do you do? Its like being thrown out into the streets, says Beard.
DHH officials are locating places for the residents to go. Options given to the residents were other nursing homes and assisted living facilities, the Salvation Army, or they could wait for police. Everyone had less than a day to relocate and had to be out by Friday afternoon.
