(Radio Iowa) – The state has fined a Coralville care facility three-thousand dollars after a brain-injured woman wandered away in January and was later found at a truck stop in suburban Omaha. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reports the woman had previously been diagnosed with dementia and psychological issues as well as a traumatic brain injury.

A state report indicates the woman walked over two miles through the snow and then hitched a ride with a semi-driver who drove her to Nebraska.

A worker at the home allegedly admitted she failed to check to make sure each resident was present at the beginning of her shift the day the woman went missing.