TERRE HAUTE, Ind – A hearing will be held this Tuesday (3/5/19) in a complaint filed by the State of Indiana against Bethesda Gardens.

The State filed the request for an injunction to stop the facility from providing nursing care to residents outside the scope of an unlicensed assisted living facility.

This after 75 year old Veronica Hoffman died due to hypothermia after wandering outside from the memory care unit.

Hoffman suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

Bethesda Gardens admits to previously operating a memory care unit, but discontinued that unit on Feb. 25 and says that all residents in that unit will be placed elsewhere by the end of March.

The complaint filed by the state says that state health surveyors visited the facility Feb. 6 and found staff providing nursing care.

The facility was not licensed by the state to provide that type of care.