{"id":26286,"date":"2026-07-20T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26286"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:30:38","slug":"violence-repeatedly-erupts-at-dementia-care-facilities-despite-warnings-inspections-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26286","title":{"rendered":"Violence Repeatedly Erupts at Dementia Care Facilities Despite Warnings, Inspections Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By\u00a0Jordan Rau for KFF Health News)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Ato Timaloa, a paroled sex offender who also served time for attempted murder, had dementia and an acute intolerance of noise \u2014 especially from roommates at Sunrise Post Acute, a nursing home in Banning, California. Over four months in 2025, a state investigative report found, Sunrise switched Timaloa\u2019s room eight times, the last into one occupied by Attilio Cecchetto, 92, a retired tile installer whose dementia led him to frequently moan, mumble, and yell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overnight, a nurse aide walked into their room and saw blood splattered on the floor, walls, and ceiling, according to a grand jury transcript. Cecchetto\u2019s face \u201clooked twisted and smashed,\u201d the aide testified. A Banning city police officer testified that Timaloa, 77, told him that he had punched Cecchetto twice. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(By\u00a0Jordan Rau for KFF Health News)\u00a0 Sam Ato Timaloa, a paroled sex offender who also served time for attempted murder,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24],"tags":[116,232,94,2117],"class_list":["post-26286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-nursing-homes","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-nursing-home","tag-older-adults","tag-violence-at-dementia-care-facilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26287,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286\/revisions\/26287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}