COVINGTON -- A Baraga County nursing home has been forced to close and its residents moved to a new facility.
Michigan's Department of Human Services shut down the Covington Rest Home Monday after suspending its license.
According to a relative of the owner who works at the facility, the rest home was cited for violations during their annual inspection at the end of August. They say the state did not give the rest home a chance to explain the alleged state violations and came in Monday and moved out all 25 residents.
They say the violations involved paperwork and missed documentation. They are now at a Calumet facility.
The Covington Rest Home has been in operation for 35 years, and the owner's relative says this has never happened before.
The home's owner will be in Lansing on Friday to contest the license suspension.
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