Patient moved after attack

By OWEN PROTHRO

Staff writer

A disorderly 51-year-old male has been removed from Westview Manor in Peabody, according to county sheriffs, after two separate attacks Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

One alleged attack occurred at 6:49 p.m. Saturday, according to a log of the police dispatch.

One of the staff members was pushed into a wall and suffered a possible broken rib and head injury, according to undersheriff Larry Starkey. The other, who is pregnant, was allegedly punched in the arm and face.

An injured staffer was taken by ambulance to Newton Medical Center.

Another attack by the same resident was reported around 10:42 a.m. Sunday, when a nurse, 44, was struck. Although bleeding from the mouth, she declined to be taken to a hospital.

The man reported was transferred to Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital, Wichita, after the attack Sunday morning.

“Staff doesn’t want him there,” Starkey said. “He needed more care than what they were giving him.”