A veteran who had been reported missing over a month ago was found dead last Friday in a stairwell on the campus of a Massachusetts Veterans Affairs hospital, CNN reports.
The Middlesex County District Attorney's office, which declined to name the deceased 62-year-old veteran, announced last week that a resident at the Bedford Veterans Quarters, a facility leased from the VA that provides residences for veterans that were without homes, discovered the body in a stairwell on the campus of Bedford Veterans Affairs Hospital. The man was wearing the same clothes that he had on when last seen in the facility on May 8, five days before he was reported missing on May 13.
The DA’s office is currently investigating the man’s death and has yet to release a cause of death.
A spokesperson for Caritas Communities, which operates the housing units, said that the body was discovered outside of their premises, and that “Caritas Communities is committed to the health and safety of our residents, and follows strict protocols when a resident is discovered missing. On May 13 we filed a missing persons report for a BVQ resident, and have been working with the VA and the Bedford Police to ascertain the whereabouts of this resident.”
However, a spokesperson for the Bedford VA facility told CNN that "a non-VA resident was found deceased on the Bedford VA campus in an area leased and operated by” Caritas.
The Boston Herald notes that the Bedford VA Hospital has come under scrutiny before, once last September when a nurse was charged with diluting morphine and causing “increased suffering” to a terminal patient, and in another incident when a nurse was charged after lying to investigators about playing video games while a patient of hers died.
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