FL Nurse Aide Charged with Stealing Credit Cards and IDs from Patients
A Gainesville certified nursing assistant has been charged with exploiting the patients she cared for by taking photographs of their credit cards and driver’s licenses.
FL Home Health Aide Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud Involving Check Taken from Elderly Client
Jamie Jakia Cofer, a/k/a “Anna Bell,” 24, of Lake Worth, Florida, pled guilty to bank fraud, after depositing and cashing an unauthorized check that was…
Indiana Nurse Allegedly Removed COVID-19 Patient’s Oxygen
A southern Indiana nurse has been charged with practicing medicine without a license for allegedly removing a nursing home resident’s oxygen mask hours before he…
A Massive Fire at a New York Facility Kills One Resident and a Firefighter Missing
A fire broke out on March 23, 2021 in a nursing facility prompting dozens of middle-of-the-night rescues. Ten residents were taken to area hospitals for…
OCR Settles Eighteenth Investigation in HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services announces its eighteenth settlement of an enforcement action in its…
Owner of Defunct SC Urine Drug Testing Lab Agrees to Pay over $2M to Resolve Allegations of Participation in Kickback Schemes
The United States has settled claims asserted against Philip McHugh, one of the former owners of Physicians Choice Laboratory Services (PCLS), a now-defunct diagnostic testing…
Owner of FL Wound Care Supply Company Sentenced to 15 Months for Medicare Billing Fraud
Alan Trent Harley (62, Chuluota) was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for wire fraud. The court also ordered Harley to forfeit more than…
Kentucky Man with Guns, Bombs and Body Armor Arrested at Lexington Hospital
A Kentucky man was arrested Thursday at University of Kentucky’s Albert B. Chandler Hospital after police said he brought guns, body armor and suspected bombs…
Oregon Could Have Prevented Some Coronavirus Deaths in Senior Care, Auditors Say
State health officials’ failure to adequately prepare for the pandemic likely contributed to some senior care home coronavirus deaths early in the pandemic, state auditors said in…
Automated Alarm Was Offline in Nursing Home Destroyed by Deadly Blaze, Sources Say
Multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of the investigation told News 4 that the automated alarm system was not connected to the county’s central dispatch when…