Search continues for missing Denver nursing facility resident

DENVER — The seek for a lacking 71-year-old girl from a Denver nursing facility continued Tuesday.

Chong Quickly Yi is a resident on the Amberwood Courtroom Rehabilitation and Care Group, which is positioned at 4686 East Asbury Circle in Denver. Facility workers found her lacking on Saturday.

Yi, who workers says is conversant in the realm and continuously ventures out of the constructing, was final seen Saturday morning at a bus cease close to Jewell Avenue and Asbury Circle carrying a blue jacket and dark-gray sweatpants. The Colorado Bureau of Investigations issued a Senior Alert on Monday.

Those that have met Yi say she is a pleasant girl who earlier than arriving at Amberwood in 2017, had been homeless. An Amberwood worker, who selected to stay nameless, advised Denver7 that they really feel the nursing house is answerable for her disappearance.

“It’s a locked facility. So there is a code to get out and in. If the resident needed to go exterior, she ought to have been allowed exterior within the again, not out within the entrance as a result of then that makes her unsupervised,” mentioned the employee.

The Denver Police Division says the power reported Yi lacking inside half-hour and officers instantly performed a grid search, notified public transportation, and put her title on a nationwide system.

The CBI alert was issued two days after she was found lacking. The rationale was a lack of awareness, police mentioned.

“As extra suppliers got here into work on Monday and noticed that she was lacking, that they had extra background data, which they reached out to us and brought about us to escalate our response. The care suppliers who have been on scene that day did not present that to our officers,” mentioned Sergeant Brian Cotter with DPD’s lacking and exploited particular person’s unit.

In accordance with Amberwood, Yi suffers from dementia and schizoaffective dysfunction. Nonetheless, after assessing her in April, she was deemed low threat, that means she might be exterior and had by no means wandered away earlier than.

“In accordance with workers they reported that she did like to take a seat exterior, and in order that’s definitely one thing that she was able to doing,” mentioned Cynthia Coenen, chief scientific officer for Vivage Senior Residing.

Coenen mentioned Amberwood workers all the time cooperates with police and mentioned she was unaware of any points police might have had instantly getting the entire data.

“It is my understanding that we totally cooperated with the authorities and so that is the primary time I’m listening to of this. I would want to interview the person who had a degree of contact with the police division,” mentioned Coenen.

“Who’s her voice? In the event that they’re speculated to, is that facility speculated to be her voice? If they don’t seem to be, then who’s?” mentioned the employee.

The 71-year-old Yi is described as a 5 ft 2 inches tall, 100 pound Korean-American feminine with brown hair and brown eyes.

The CBI mentioned Yi is conversant in RTD and should have used it as transportation.

Anybody with data is requested to name 911 or the Denver Police Division at 720-913-2000.