Court rejects some charges against nursing home workers
Monday, October 3rd, 2005.
Escondido, CA – An appellate court has rejected a state prosecutor’s bid to charge 12 low-level Escondido health-care workers with criminal elder abuse by using laws historically applied to nursing homes and those who run them, not to rank-and-file employees.
The dozen workers still face other misdemeanor charges related to allegations that they falsified records and neglected an elderly patient in October 2003 at a nursing home that until last year was known as SunBridge Care & Rehabilitation for Escondido-East.
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