LISTEN: 911 Calls On Assisted Living Staff Overdosing On Fentanyl

EAST HAVEN, CT — A visiting nurse went to the Caroline Manor Assisted Living facility to check on a patient Wednesday afternoon and called 911 after finding two employees, a man and a woman, the only staff on duty, overdosing, police said.

In the recordings provided by police embedded below, the visiting nurse identified the woman she found on the stairs overdosing as the facility manager.

According to East Haven Police Department Capt. Joseph M. Murgo, it was just after 3 p.m. when the East Haven Public Safety Dispatch Center got the 911 call about possible overdoses at the Clark Avenue facility. When first responders got there, they found a male employee in a lower level office suffering from an overdose and a female employee also suffering from an overdose. Murgo said it was later determined to be Fentanyl, which was "in plain view."

Both were given Narcan by East Haven firefighters and then "rushed" to Yale New Haven Hospital. Murgo said their conditions are "unknown at this time."

Murgo said that Caroline Manor had no other staff on site. The nurse who found them was a visiting nurse, not a staff member. Murgo said that "while this was occurring patients were left with no supervision."

East Haven Fire Department Chief Matt Marcarelli "immediately" called the state Department of Public Health to report the incident. Officials told Patch that DPH sent an "investigator out to the facility to assess" the situation.

Patch made several calls to the facility in an unsuccessful attempt to get comment.

Marcarelli told Patch that on Aug. 26, the state health department and the East Haven Fire Marshal Charlie Miller "conducted a surprise inspection on the facility where several violations were identified and enforcement action was started." The facility was due to be reinspected Oct. 6.

"At my direction, the fire marshal was notified of the latest incident along with the DPH and was coordinating a response and further investigation," Marcarelli said.

Meanwhile, Murgo said that the police department's Investigative Services Division responded and "seized the narcotics which were left out and in plain view when officers and Fire Department personnel arrived."

No patients were injured during this incident, Murgo said.

Thursday, Murgo provided recordings described as redacted of the 911 calls:

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