Found Safe OK - Helen Duboy, 55, Altus, 13 Feb 2021

[PommyMommy]

Altus police issue Silver Alert for missing 55-year-old woman (kjrh.com)

Altus police are asking for the public's help in the search for a missing woman.

• 55-year-old Helena Duboy went missing around 9 p.m. Saturday from English Village Nursing Home in Altus OK where she is a resident.
• Duboy is 5'2" tall and 109 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.
• She was last seen wearing a long black housecoat with blue jeans and a gray t-shirt.

If you have any information about Duboy's whereabouts, contact the Altus Police Department at 580 482 4121.

Altus Police Department | Facebook

• It was learned from security footage that Helena left the facility at 9 p.m.
• The temperature was only 8 degrees at that time.
• She has on black shoes with white trim.

English Village Manor Rehab & Care Center - Google Maps

 

[PommyMommy]

Silver Alert issued for missing 55-year-old woman last seen Saturday at Altus nursing home (koco.com)
Police said she is under a proven medical or physical disability and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death.

 

[airportwoman]

If she's 55 years old and in a nursing home, something's really wrong. I hope she found a clean, warm, dry place somewhere and will be brought back safely, and soon.

 

[PommyMommy]

If she's 55 years old and in a nursing home, something's really wrong. I hope she found a clean, warm, dry place somewhere and will be brought back safely, and soon.

I hope she is safe as well. But, her age doesn't stand out to me since she reportedly has a medical or physical disability.

What does get my attention is that she went missing at 9 p.m. on Saturday night and LE didn't enter the picture until approx 7:45 Sunday morning. This is a nursing home. They have nurses there, I assume? How was she missing all night long without being noticed? MOO

Altus Police Department | Facebook
On 02-14-2021 at approximately 07:45 a.m., Officers at the Altus Police Department responded to the English Village Nursing Home regarding a missing resident.

 

[YaYa_521]

Someone in that nursing home must know something. How could she just walk away at 9PM and them wait until the next morning to notify authorities? Ugh! I suppose English Village Manor Nursing facility is hiring now, right?!?!

Many folks commenting at APD's FB post are ticked off and I can't say I blame them. Her family is also posting. Her brother, D.D., shared some disturbing information, imo. I hope they can find Helen soon.

Altus Police still looking for woman missing since Saturday
February 16, 2021 at 4:29 PM CST - Updated February 16 at 4:29 PM

• ...missing since Saturday...last seen on a surveillance camera leaving the English Village Manor Nursing facility,
• ...around 9 p.m. Saturday night, police were notified she was missing around 7:45 the next morning.
• It’s believed she may be in the company of a man who might have picked her up at a planned location near the nursing home.
• Duboy is 55-years-old, a white female approx. 5ft. 2 inches tall and weighing 110 lbs. Her last known clothing description is a long black housecoat, a gray in color t-shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes with white trim, her current her clothing description is unknown.
• ...contacted the FBI and are working with them,

I hope she is safe as well. But, her age doesn't stand out to me since she reportedly has a medical or physical disability.

What does get my attention is that she went missing at 9 p.m. on Saturday night and LE didn't enter the picture until approx 7:45 Sunday morning. This is a nursing home. They have nurses there, I assume? How was she missing all night long without being noticed? MOO

Altus Police Department | Facebook
On 02-14-2021 at approximately 07:45 a.m., Officers at the Altus Police Department responded to the English Village Nursing Home regarding a missing resident.

 

[YaYa_521]

Helena's FB

 

[PommyMommy]

Someone in that nursing home must know something. How could she just walk away at 9PM and them wait until the next morning to notify authorities? Ugh! I suppose English Village Manor Nursing facility is hiring now, right?!?!

Many folks commenting at APD's FB post are ticked off and I can't say I blame them. Her family is also posting. Her brother, D.D., shared some disturbing information, imo. I hope they can find Helen soon.

Altus Police still looking for woman missing since Saturday
February 16, 2021 at 4:29 PM CST - Updated February 16 at 4:29 PM

• ...missing since Saturday...last seen on a surveillance camera leaving the English Village Manor Nursing facility,
• ...around 9 p.m. Saturday night, police were notified she was missing around 7:45 the next morning.
• It’s believed she may be in the company of a man who might have picked her up at a planned location near the nursing home.
• Duboy is 55-years-old, a white female approx. 5ft. 2 inches tall and weighing 110 lbs. Her last known clothing description is a long black housecoat, a gray in color t-shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes with white trim, her current her clothing description is unknown.
• ...contacted the FBI and are working with them,

I am so disgusted about the circumstances of Helena’s disappearance that when I read she may have been picked up by a man, I actually had a fleeting thought that that might be a good thing. Maybe he’d actually take care of her like the nursing home should have. I have now peeled myself off the ceiling and admit that this is in fact, not a good thing.

It does sound like LE is on top of it. They’ve brought in the FBI. That’s good – looks like she may have some ties to Colorado. Do we know if she has a cellphone? Hopefully so, and investigators are learning who she has had contact with. Does the nursing home keep visitor logs?

English Village Manor | Rehabilitation | Altus, OK
Our goal is to help each patient achieve his or her optimum level of ... independence.

Oh, the irony. MOO

 

[swanniee11]

Here's my issue. 1st post says she went missing "around 9pm" could it be 7pm? Aren't these doors locked at least after visiting hours? Epic fail on this nursing home. In this day and age you should be buzzed in to see someone for security purposes and alarms for those who exit from side doors etc. Not to mention the Covid and nursing home issues to begin with?Huge flags IMO

 

[YaYa_521]

The second thing the FBI needs to do after they find Helen is to start a criminal investigation into this nursing home. This is not okay on sooooo many levels. I don't care what or how many excuses the admin and staff come up with about how/why she left that facility. No explanation will justify no one noticing/reporting her missing until the next morning. NONE!

That's it...I gotta hush or I'll get banned from here.

 

[Limecat]

Here's my issue. 1st post says she went missing "around 9pm" could it be 7pm? Aren't these doors locked at least after visiting hours? Epic fail on this nursing home. In this day and age you should be buzzed in to see someone for security purposes and alarms for those who exit from side doors etc. Not to mention the Covid and nursing home issues to begin with?Huge flags IMO

The COVID issue was what I thought of, too, along with no one in the facility seeing her leave or not knowing until morning she was gone.
My 99 yo Mom moved into a nursing home last February. I saw her twice before the place was literally locked down. Once they had confirmed cases, the residents were not even allowed to leave their rooms, excepting baths/physical therapy. When the cases got high, there were a couple of weeks here and there where they were not allowed out of their rooms period. For any reason.

I know her facility is losing help right and left. People quitting at the drop of a hat and they’re really struggling with hiring new people. That might explain a situation where CNAs didn’t look into HDs room overnight.

Just my own experiences over the last year. MOO

 

[YaYa_521]

The COVID issue was what I thought of, too, along with no one in the facility seeing her leave or not knowing until morning she was gone.
My 99 yo Mom moved into a nursing home last February. I saw her twice before the place was literally locked down. Once they had confirmed cases, the residents were not even allowed to leave their rooms, excepting baths/physical therapy. When the cases got high, there were a couple of weeks here and there where they were not allowed out of their rooms period. For any reason.

I know her facility is losing help right and left. People quitting at the drop of a hat and they’re really struggling with hiring new people. That might explain a situation where CNAs didn’t look into HDs room overnight.

Just my own experiences over the last year. MOO

I don't mean to be disrespectful so I hope this doesn't come across that way, but there is no way CNAs are so extremely busy during the night shift that they can't look into every resident's room. We're not talking about a bustling children's daycare center where the little ones are scurrying throughout hiding in little cracks and crevices or running off outside. Most of the residents at nursing facilities usually are sound asleep once the sun goes down. Few are gallivanting through the hallways or out of the exits. I really want to give the staff the benefit of the doubt, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how no one checked on her throughout the entire night. Staffing issues cannot be accepted as an excuse, imo. They are responsible for the safety and well-being of residents 24 hours a day w/ or w/o the appropriate amount of staff. If they can't provide the security promised to residents and families, then perhaps it's time to shut it down. MOO

 

[swanniee11]

The COVID issue was what I thought of, too, along with no one in the facility seeing her leave or not knowing until morning she was gone.
My 99 yo Mom moved into a nursing home last February. I saw her twice before the place was literally locked down. Once they had confirmed cases, the residents were not even allowed to leave their rooms, excepting baths/physical therapy. When the cases got high, there were a couple of weeks here and there where they were not allowed out of their rooms period. For any reason.

I know her facility is losing help right and left. People quitting at the drop of a hat and they’re really struggling with hiring new people. That might explain a situation where CNAs didn’t look into HDs room overnight.

Just my own experiences over the last year. MOO

I just want to say God bless you and your mother. What a sad, lonely situation. Prayers.

 

[wowitsdark]

Two possibilities:
1) if she was unhappy with the fact that she was in a nursing home and had an ally wanting to help her get out, she might have made it look like she was in her bed and snuck out. If she has early onset dementia, for instance, she might be capable of being sneaky.

2) she might have had the freedom to leave with specific people, and left with an approved person and then never returned. My mother used to take my grandmother on drives and to Sonic when she was in a nursing home with dementia.

 

[Limecat]

I just want to say God bless you and your mother. What a sad, lonely situation. Prayers.

Thank you so much Swanniee11! OT but she’s doing great and my dad just turned 99 too,

 

[Limecat]

Two possibilities:
1) if she was unhappy with the fact that she was in a nursing home and had an ally wanting to help her get out, she might have made it look like she was in her bed and snuck out. If she has early onset dementia, for instance, she might be capable of being sneaky.

2) she might have had the freedom to leave with specific people, and left with an approved person and then never returned. My mother used to take my grandmother on drives and to Sonic when she was in a nursing home with dementia.

Great points wowitsdark!

ETA autocorrect sucks

 

[Limecat]

I don't mean to be disrespectful so I hope this doesn't come across that way, but there is no way CNAs are so extremely busy during the night shift that they can't look into every resident's room. We're not talking about a bustling children's daycare center where the little ones are scurrying throughout hiding in little cracks and crevices or running off outside. Most of the residents at nursing facilities usually are sound asleep once the sun goes down. Few are gallivanting through the hallways or out of the exits. I really want to give the staff the benefit of the doubt, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how no one checked on her throughout the entire night. Staffing issues cannot be accepted as an excuse, imo. They are responsible for the safety and well-being of residents 24 hours a day w/ or w/o the appropriate amount of staff. If they can't provide the security promised to residents and families, then perhaps it's time to shut it down. MOO

I totally agree YaYa. To be honest I have no clue what the night protocol is like. I’ll have to ask my mother. Just relating her experiences over the past year.

 

[bleuboy]

I would of thought security was even more strict with covid.
they should not have had people walking round at night.
I would be devastated if this was my loved one.
surely there is at least one check of each residents rooms late at night to check everyone is in bed or safe in their rooms. They could be stuck after an accident in the bathroom or anything really.

 

[YaYa_521]

Helen is still missing according to APD's replies to a couple of comments just a few hours ago. There is an interesting comment by W.B. who claims to be a family member.

16 Feb 2021
Altus Police Department
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MISSING PERSON UPDATE

Altus Police continue their search for a 55-year-old woman who walked away from a local nursing facility. Helena Duboy, a patient at English Village Manor Nursing facility, is seen on surveillance video leaving the facility at around 9:00 p.m. Saturday night (02-13-2021). Police were contacted at around 7:45 a.m. Sunday morning. Altus Police have contacted the FBI & are currently working together on the case.

Police believe Duboy is in the company of a man who may have picked her up at a planned location near the nursing facility on Saturday night. Police and the family of Duboy continue to work together to try and locate her whereabouts. Police are asking for your help in locating Helena Duboy. Helena Duboy is a white female approximately 5ft. 2 inches tall and weighing 110 lbs. Her last known clothing description is a long black housecoat, a gray in color t-shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes with white trim.

If you see Helena Duboy, or have any information pertaining to this case, you’re asked to call the Altus Police Department at (580) 482-4121 or your local law enforcement.

 

[YaYa_521]

Helen, or someone posing as Helen, posted on her FB saying she is safe and very happy. She says she was never missing. She simply had no internet. ETA - She posted 2 pics moments ago.
Helen's FB

Her brother, W.B., posted a new reply a few minutes ago.
Log into Facebook

 

[swanniee11]

Helena Duboy
She posted that she is safe and happy. I would think they are still going to try and locate her to verify. IMO