Woman Working at Hospital Treated 4,500 Patients Without License, Police Say

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 7, 2025, 2:53 p.m. ET | Adeel Hassan

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The 29-year-old forged her documents to work at a Florida hospital, and the discrepancy was noticed only after she was offered a promotion, according to an investigation.

A young woman working at a hospital in Florida drew blood, administered medications and started IV lines, treating about 4,500 individuals over seven months. She did her job so well that she was offered a promotion at the start of this year.

But when the hospital, AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway in Palm Coast, Fla., checked the status of the woman’s nursing license, they discovered that she had an expired certified nursing assistant license, that she had never passed a licensing exam and that she had been using the license number of another nurse with the same first name.

Instead of a promotion, she was fired.

The woman, Autumn Bardisa, 29, was arrested on Tuesday at her Palm Coast home on seven counts of practicing a health care profession without a license and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday. She was wearing her blue medical scrubs.

She was charged with one count for each month in which she fraudulently practiced as a registered nurse, the sheriff’s office said.

Ms. Bardisa is being held in the county jail on a $70,000 bond. It was not clear whether she had a lawyer.

“This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated,” Sheriff Rick Staly said in a statement. “This woman potentially put thousands of lives at risk by pretending to be someone she was not and violating the trust of patients, their families, AdventHealth and an entire medical community.”

Sheriff Staly said that his office, which conducted an investigation in coordination with AdventHealth and state and federal agencies, had not...

[logi_cal869]

She should claim to be trans...

See what happens. /s

[csn vinnie]

So, she was undocumented. Where are the Democrat politicians willing to fight for her?

[Captain Peter Blood]

Exactly. She would not have been considered for promotion if she had not had excellent job performance reviews and had been doing a superb job to begin with.

I would imagine she’s probably better than her so-called colleagues.

If I had somebody like that, I probably would turn around to help her get the right certifications

[Captain Peter Blood]

I regularly go in monthly for a maintenance session with my chiropractor.

A few years ago, I was having problems with my neck. I could not turn my head either way very far.

I did some research on it and discovered that at the base of your skull is something called the atlas bone, and if it gets out of sink, it can cause all kinds of problems.

So I went for a diagnostic check up with a really good chiropractor that I found and after testing x-rays, he told me that some of the bones in my neck were calcifying, but it wasn’t serious and that Atlas bone treatment would be much better

I found that to be the case and ended up having full motion again on both sides of my neck. If I had gone to an orthopedic doctor, they would’ve probably given me just pain pills .I found that to be the case and ended up having full motion again on both sides of my neck. If I had gone to a orthopedic doctor, they would’ve probably given me just pain pills and treatment that would not solve the problem.

[Az Joe]

I feel better already. What time are the sponge baths?!