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Former employees urge Pulaski County to investigate Alzheimer’s center, allege safety and management failures
Summary
Former employees Kristen and Jeff Mounts told the Pulaski County Fiscal Court the county-supported Pulaski County Alzheimer’s Center has systemic management failures — incomplete background checks, missing training, dietary and medication lapses, absent thermometers and repeated client elopements — and asked the court to assist, a request the court said it would consider.
Kristen Mounts, who identified herself at the start of her remarks as a recent former employee of the Pulaski County Alzheimer’s Center, told the Pulaski County Fiscal Court that the county-supported dementia care facility has multiple operational and safety problems and asked officials for help. “I’m standing before you this morning as an advocate for the clients,” Mounts said.
Mounts and her husband, Jeff Mounts, listed specific failures they said were occurring at the center: new hires were not getting…
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