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New York Nursing Home Employee Falsified Records Regarding Medication

A New York State nursing home staff member and former worker at Williamsville Suburban Nursing Home pleaded guilty to three counts falsifying patient records during her employment, a class E felony. She has been given a three-year discharge as a registered nurse as well as 50 hours of community service for her change. Her case was part of a larger investigation of the Amherst nursing home, which was found to be repeatedly covering up instances of substandard care.

A hidden camera used by the New York Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit caught 61-year-old Deborah Groth recording that she had given an elderly patient diabetes medication when in fact she had not. The woman also recorded that she had taken the patient’s vital signs and applied a skin treatment when she did not examine the patient at all.

Several other nurses from the same New York nursing home has received similar sentence and similar charges. Earlier this year, 55-year-old Linda Banks, received a one-year conditional discharge after pleading guilty to two counts of Endangering the Welfare of an Incompetent or Physically Disabled Person and two counts of nursing home neglect. 

The NY Attorney General’s office released a statement that it would continue these types of investigations in the future to prevent nursing home neglect and nursing home abuse.

“This office will leave no stone unturned in the quest to ensure that patients in nursing homes across the state are treated with dignity and receive the healthcare they deserve,” said Attorney General Schneiderman.

The New York State nursing home is owned by Legacy Health Care LLC and the Zacher family.

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