After her 78-year-old mother was sexually assaulted at Hebert Nursing Home in Smithfield, Sandra Balay is questioning why people with severe mental illness were housed along with vulnerable ...

Like many elderly people who suffer from severe dementia, Sandra Balay's mother has a tendency to wander. Within a month or two of arriving at Hebert Nursing Home, she'd started to roam in and out ...

After her mother was sexually assaulted at Hebert Nursing Home, an Rhode Island woman is questioning why people with severe mental illness were housed along those with dementia. The Rhode Island ...

"There's different schooling for that. Clearly, a nurse working in a nursing home is not a psych nurse." At the very least, she said, there "absolutely" should have been more supervision.

Within a month or two of arriving at Hebert Nursing Home, she'd started to roam in and out of other residents' rooms. The Smithfield facility suggested moving her to a locked unit where she'd be ...

Yet months later, neither the nursing home nor the alleged perpetrator have faced any consequences for the Feb. 13 incident.

In her view, the nursing home clearly wasn't equipped to treat severely mentally ill patients. "The nurses and the CNAs and staff are not trained in mental health. They're just not," she said.