Two Georgia doctors say nursing home operator Bob Dean has significant dementia and cognitive impairment and should not be forced to sit for depositions in the various lawsuits targeting him.
Dean’s lawyers submitted the doctors’ letters while seeking a protective order to keep him from sitting for a deposition. They claimed dementia has sapped Dean’s memory and robbed him of his ability to communicate. They say he is not only unfit to travel, but due to his current health condition, is unable to testify.
Following Hurricane Ida, patients from Dean’s nursing homes languished in horrid conditions at a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish.
Along with defending against the lawsuits, Dean is fighting the state to restore licenses and Medicaid provider agreements that the state revoked in early September for his seven nursing homes.
Louisiana state officials said Dean left his residents in inhumane conditions and refused to ask for help, or to allow inspections, once conditions got worse inside the warehouse.
Dean remains under criminal investigation by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office.
He’s also under investigation over unrelated animal cruelty complaints involving his Oregon ranch after many of his cattle died in a recent snowfall.
