Search at Bremen care home over allegations that residents were left without adequate care

Authorities are investigating the management of a Bremen care home after residents were allegedly left without adequate care and, in some cases, became dehydrated. A prosecutor’s office spokesperson confirmed suspicions of bodily harm and mistreatment of people under protection.

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There are enough people in the home to ensure care.

Police were alerted in the morning by an employee who said she felt left alone with responsibility for caring for the residents. The regional broadcaster buten un binnen first reported the case.

The home’s managing director, Michael Müller, rejects the accusations. “There are enough people in the home to ensure care,” he said. Müller acknowledged that several care workers are currently ill, but said colleagues who were supposed to be off work had stepped in. “We meet the legally required staffing level,” he said.

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We meet the legally required staffing level.

Müller said the home’s supervisory authority had confirmed that assessment the previous week and again on the day of the report. “All our residents in the higher care levels are well looked after,” he said. He called the allegations “really completely incomprehensible” and said they would “dissolve into thin air.”

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All our residents in the higher care levels are well looked after.

The facility currently houses 65 people, although it has space for 80. Müller stood behind the home’s management and said he was considering legal action.

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Really completely incomprehensible.