Nursing home aides accused of mistreating body
Friday, November 24th, 2006.
Mount Clemens, MI - Three former care workers at a Sterling Heights nursing home admit posing for photographs with a corpse but are fighting a criminal charge of mistreatment in what could be a precedent-setting case.
Ericka Nichole Jackson, Tahirah Hasseena Shakur and Keisa E. Cooper, all of Detroit, were fired as nurses’ aides at Cherrywood Nursing and Living Center on 15 Mile Road and charged with patient abuse under the Public Health Code for the Oct. 13, 2004, incident. The nursing home was issued a citation by the state Department of Community Health for violating the resident’s right to dignity under the Public Health Code.
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