CONCORD, N.C. -- The family of a woman who fell to her death at a Concord nursing home says they are afraid someone else could die there.

Annie Belle Scarboro was 87, had Alzheimer's, and her family says she had gotten out of the facility before.

Her daughter, Rosemary Ritchie,  said she is worried about other patients at Five Oaks Manor. Ritchie got a call last Thursday night that her mother was being rushed to the hospital. When she got to Northeast Medical Center, doctors told her that her 87-year-old mother was brain dead because of a fall that Ritchie says the nursing home could have prevented.

"Mom didn't deserve what happened. I feel like I let my mom down but the nursing home let me down," Ritchie said.

She says her mom somehow got through a kitchen door that didn't have an alarm on it. That door led out to the back of the facility and a loading dock -- newly fenced after the incident. Police say the 87-year-old fell 4 feet to her death.

"I put her there trusting they would keep her safe and then this happened. It's not right," Ritchie said.

The state is now investigating Five Oaks -- a facility Medicare gave just one out of five stars. Inspection reports from earlier this year show the nursing home has had problems with patients getting out before.

The family says Scarboro had gotten out unsupervised once before.

Ricthie admits her mother often liked to move about at night, but she and her husband want to know how she managed to get out to the loading dock where she fell.

"This has got to end. I want it to end now," Ritchie said. "Why I talk is for the people left in the nursing home that can't come out of there. I don't want them to go down the same road."

NewsChannel 36 tried repeatedly to get in touch with management at the nursing home and were told they would not comment during an ongoing investigation. That state investigation should wrap up in the next two weeks. The family has contacted an attorney.