Woman says father with dementia was discharged from hospital without family notification, then went missing

Nancy Johnson recalled the fright she felt on Halloween night after learning her 74-year-old father Robert Johnson was out on the streets when she thought he was in a hospital.

It was very scary, very scary," she said. I was a wreck a nervous wreck.

On the evening of October 31, Johnson said she took her dad to Bon Secours' Southside Medical Center for chest pains, at the recommendation of his primary care. At the time, she said she had a grandbaby with her who was not allowed to be taken back with Robert, so she left the facility to take the baby elsewhere.

"Within about two hours, or two and a half hours of me returning back to the hospital, they already discharged him." Johnson said.

Johnson said she immediately became concerned after finding out her father had been discharged, beca