Nursing home worker checks can be lacking; Employee screenings get renewed attention after Lawrence drug theft
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006.
Lawrence, KS - The case of a woman sentenced to jail for stealing elderly patients’ morphine has raised questions about how employees are screened for jobs in Kansas nursing homes.
At the time she was hired as a nursing aide at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community in late 2004, Erica A. Bay was on probation in Cowley County for felony cocaine possession. The staff at the nursing home — which doesn’t require pre-employment drug screens — learned of the conviction after her hire but allowed her to continue working there.
An admitted drug addict, Bay eventually began squeezing morphine gel out of patients’ skin patches and giving it to herself.
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