{"id":323497,"date":"2026-08-17T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323497\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:16:12","slug":"patient-falls-to-his-death-from-window-at-troubled-new-york-nursing-home-slated-to-close-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323497\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient falls to his death from window at troubled New York nursing home slated to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 A patient <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/patient-dies-in-fatal-fall-from-rochester-nursing-home-window-police-say-waterview-heights-rehabiltation-center-charlotte-death-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fell to his death<\/a> Monday from a third-floor window at a Rochester nursing home already facing closure after years of problems and scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Greg Bello said the Rochester Police Department responded to Waterview Heights Rehabilitation &amp; Nursing Center around 6:30 a.m. Monday for a report that a patient fell from a third-floor window.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said first responders found a man in his 60s on the ground. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>There were no signs of criminal circumstances surrounding the man&#8217;s death, Bello said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came less than a week after Waterview Heights residents learned it will soon be closing and they will need to move.<\/p>\n<p>BACKGROUND: Troubled Rochester nursing home forced to close after years of scrutiny | Waterview Heights closure leaves families worried about where residents will go<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information in the incident is asked to call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 A patient fell to his death Monday from a third-floor window at a Rochester nursing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-323497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}