CAPE ELIZABETH – A nursing home that was in danger of losing its Medicare funding has corrected violations and has been cleared to continue receiving federal reimbursements.

Investigators from the Maine Department of Human Services visited Viking Community nursing home to ensure the facility had made the necessary changes.

Viking was required to submit a plan of correction that the agency deemed acceptable by Aug. 26. The state received the plan Thursday and investigators cleared the nursing home Friday.

The DHS investigation was prompted by the death of 72-year-old Shirley Sayre. Sayre, who had Alzheimer’s disease, wandered out of the home Aug. 8. Her body was found the next morning in a culvert less than a quarter-mile away.

The investigation found that residents were in “immediate jeopardy,” but Helen Mulligan, a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the problems have since been corrected.