Parent of Bolivar nursing home fined for neglect

Attorney General Jay Nixon prosecuted the charge against the business, which operates Turtle Creek Nursing Home in Bolivar. The corporation was fined Sept. 28 after being found guilty of resident neglect in a jury trial in July.

The sentence is in connection with the death of Gary Oheim, a 40-year-old resident of Turtle Creek. He was admitted to Turtle Creek in early 2001 and was moved to Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar on Jan. 10, 2002, because of severe ulcers; he died later that month.

Nixon brought separate charges against the manager of Turtle Creek, Mary Collura of Buffalo. She was sentenced in April to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after admitting she failed to make adequate provision for treatment of Oheim’s condition.

Charges also were filed against six aides at Turtle Creek who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of third-degree elder abuse and failure to report suspected abuse of a patient.