Posted on 04/29/2020 9:03:27 AM PDT by USA Conservative
From my anecdotal experience (just my own relatives), care-provider theft from the dying and recently deceased is endemic and has been for a long, long time. Usually, the value seems to be low enough that families don’t want to make an issue of it at a time when they are grieving.
We can only guess how many elderly Covid-19 victims have been damaged by these so-called”frontline” workers. A caregiver allegedly stole and pawned the engagement ring of an 86-year-old woman with dementia as she lay dying from coronavirus. As Denver Channel reported 29-year-old Aurora woman who was working as a temporary health care worker at the Carillon at Belleview Station care center has been accused of stealing the engagement ring of an 86-year-old woman in memory care and then using her credit cards after she died of COVID-19.
Elizabeth Daniels, 29, is charged with theft from an at-risk person, identity theft, providing a false statement to a pawnbroker and criminal possession of a financial transaction device, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
According to the affidavit, Daniels had been hired as a temporary worker at the facility through a temp agency because of the number of positive cases.
According to the affidavit, Gust’s daughter-in-law called police on April 16 to say her mother-in-law had died the morning before and that she and her husband, along with the funeral home, noticed there had been activity on several of her credit cards after Gust died. Gust had been in the memory care unit at the facility.
Detectives assigned to investigate secured the arrest affidavit for Daniels the same day. They were also able to recover the ring.
Sadly this happens more often than you think, but I’m so glad they caught this one.
Years ago,while working in a big city ER,we got a memo from the legal department stating that in the future all patients who were transported from our unit to “Ward X” (the morgue) had to be accompanied by at least one female.The word I heard (unofficially) was that there was some article in some periodical targeted at hospital administrators,or lawyers, stating that there had been one,or more,reports of patients being “violated” by hospital personnel after death.
Yup,been there...done that.Sounds like you speak from experience.
One of my many memories of my time in a big city ER was when I was called upon to count just over $9,000 (in small bills) that a patient had on him.Typically I’d do that kind of thing alone (it was part of my job in my early days there) but I had the good sense to ask the charge nurse to help me...so that no accusations could be make against me.
I remember working a wreck with stripper that was so drunk she couldn’t hardly crawl after she played Dukes of Hazzard in her Jeep. There were undies and dollar bills blowing around like leaves.
I worked with a young woman who was present when her grandmother had a fatal heart attack at home. They were waiting for the ambulance, and during that wait she decided to remove all of the rings her grandmother was wearing. It was a smart move. My grandmother had a massive heart attack while she was out with my late brother and his wife. When the family came to view the casket, she was wearing a plain gold band instead of the diamond engagement/wedding rings that she normally wore.
I can’t tell you how many times I verbally lashed staff at my Gran’s nursing home until management started firing and hiring better staff; it greatly improved after a Christian organization took over almost overnight because they cleaned house. (Now it’s Bridgeway Christian Village.)
I was there at minimum once a week (I was on dialysis at the time, at 21), but usually two to three times. There was generally a family member there once almost every day, but she needed PT and care that we couldn’t provide at home or afford otherwise, plus a wheelchair can’t move easily in our house; it was built in the ‘40’s and is very narrow, whereas Gran was not.
Staff learned not to fvck with my Gran, because I didn’t tolerate anything, and neither did my mom, who was a service coordinator at that facility previously. I was about as imposing as a 5’2” woman can be without cussing or threats.
There are crappy nurses and PCTs everywhere, and it’s hard to avoid them. The best you can do in a hospital is ask for someone else, but when you aren’t lucid and have no family, that’s a GD nightmare. People who do this kind of thing to the vulnerable need severe punishments.
My Dad and his sister and brother found out about this after he had died. When they got the insurance money that my grandfather had left to them, they split it between themselves and she was left out. When she complained, they explained to her that she had already taken her portion.
I was shocked to learn what she had done when my Dad told me the details. She didn't ever seem like the type of person who would do such a thing; but, she did.
I thought this was going to be about a PBS Frontline employee. Would have been a better story.
Happens all the time.
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