A great-grandmother who was missing for the past two weeks has now been found safe, the family members told NBC 7 Friday.
For the past two weeks, Kayla Farley and her family have been putting up flyers and sharing a California Highway Patrol Silver Alert of her at-risk/missing great-grandmother.
The family said the great-grandmother was now home safe.
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Smith's relatives in San Diego said earlier in the week that they've received numerous tips about where their great-grandmother was last seen, with possible sightings across San Diego, in downtown, the Midway District and Hillcrest. Then on Labor Day, the family got a lead.
"I got called at 3:52 a.m," said Aimee Zamudio, who works for the non-profit Housing 4 the Homeless, which tries to find a place for homeless seniors to stay.
That night, Zamudio met the great-grandmother at a bus stop near Scripps Mercy Hospital, where, the family says, the 88-year-old had gone in for back pain and was then discharged.
"They should’ve made sure that my mom called someone and that someone picked my mother up," said Norma Smith, Manuela's daughter. "That’s what they do when you discharge any other time."
NBC 7 reached out to Scripps Hospital about its discharge protocol, and in a statement, Scripps shared how hospitals do not receive Silver Alerts from law enforcement and that Scripps does not discharge anyone exhibiting an inability to understand or make their own medical decisions.
