Affinity Skilled Living and Rehabilitation Center in Oakdale, Long Island, is facing claims of abuse after a patient once in its care died. Stacey Sager has the exclusive story.A nursing home on Long Island is facing disturbing claims of abuse after a patient once in its care recently died at another facility.
"To know he was being abused by somebody and he couldn't do anything about it is just gonna haunt me forever," Felicia Chillak said. It didn't take long to find a problem at Affinity Skilled Living and Rehabilitation Center in Oakdale. But loved ones say what's most chilling about the videos is the normalcy with which she approaches the violence -- slapping Mills on his face like it's nothing.
They are awaiting an official cause of death, but Chillak's lawyers say the story at Affinity is part of a much larger problem in an industry that is understaffed and under-regulated.