This is just sick.

Investigators are looking into how a man staying at a DeLand nursing home developed maggots in his eye.

The man, whose name is not being released, also is suffering from bedsores, an infected breathing tube and a partially inserted catheter, police said.

“Neglect happens constantly. This style of suspected neglect is rare,” DeLand police Deputy Chief Randel Henderson said. “When you have an infestation like this and you have an incubation of insects, it’s certainly odd.”

Ewe.

Police interviewed hospital staff this week and continued to interview employees at the nursing home, University Center West, on Friday. But they were waiting to hear whether the Attorney General’s Office would be taking over the case.

The Attorney General’s Office on Friday would not confirm or deny its involvement because of the ongoing investigation.

Officials at University Center West did not return calls for comment.

Silence is often an admission of guilt.

Henderson said he did not know and could not release what infirmities the man suffered from before the incident, but a police report indicates he is a patient with hospice, which covers care for the terminally ill.

According to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, the nursing home received three stars out of five overall in its last inspection in August and two stars for quality of care. It received one star for nutrition and hydration but five stars, the best rating, for restraints and abuse, according to the agency’s Web site.

A hospice to boot! Let’s hope much of this report turns out to be untrue. I cannot, CANNOT imagine ANY nursing home where maggots are allowed to live on residents.