Woman Arrested In Abuse of Nursing Home Resident
Monday, December 19th, 2005.
Tallahassee, FL - A certified nursing assistant has been arrested for abusing an elderly, disabled resident of a Miami Beach nursing home. The arrest of Emily Singleton, 60, culminates a two-month abuse investigation by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
The investigation began when the Department of Children and Families referred a complaint to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which looked into the incident with the cooperation of the staff at Oceanside Extended Care Center. Investigators with the unit’s Patient Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (PANE) Unit in Miami determined that an Oceanside staff member heard cries coming from the room of a disabled resident, and saw Singleton - a nursing assistant at the facility - abusing the resident.
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