ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A central Florida man is one step closer in his efforts to shut down one of the assisted living facilities that he said was connected to his mother's death.
Channel 9 discovered last month Avalon Assisted Living's history of problems and found out Friday that the owner is having a hearing to plead her case.
"Couldn't ask for a better mother," Michael Piotrowski said.
Piotrowski's mother, Dorothy, was diagnosed with dementia in 2011.
Piotrowski said he and his mother were very close, and seeing her like that tore him up.
After a fall when she was 81 years old, doctors suggested Avalon Assisted Living.
"I believed him, which I shouldn't have," Piotrowski said.
Her health declined over the next couple of years, and an unannounced visit from the Agency for Health Care Administration found that she had cracked ribs and was paralyzed from the neck down.
She would die a few weeks later.
"There was nothing she could do but lie there in that bed by herself in the dark," Piotrowski said.
Officials shut down two of Avalon's homes and will have a hearing July 28 about the third. Piotrowski said he hopes it closes.
"She wouldn't stop for me, so I'm not going to stop for her," Piotrowski said.
Avalon's Assisted Living could not be reached for comment because its numbers weren't in service.
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