State Home Investigation
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Saline County`s prosecutor says he will file
charges against two former employees of the state`s largest
mental-health and nursing home.
Six residents died at the Arkansas Health Center in Benton.
Prosecutor Robert Herzfeld says there is enough evidence for
charges in two deaths.
He said both suspects will be charged with abuse of an adult, a
felony, and with negligent homicide, a misdemeanor. He declined to
disclose the names of the victims, but said they were women.
Herzfeld said Attorney General Mike Beebe`s office recommended
criminal charges against individual employees, but not against the
troubled nursing home.
According to documents related to the A-G`s investigation, one
patient, 67-year-old Juanita Lacy, died after a nurse gave her
another patient`s medication, and 91-year-old Martha Willis died
when the center`s pharmacist dispensed the wrong medication.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
