Target 11 Investigates: Missing Nursing Home Money
Serious Questions Raised
Posted: 6:02 pm EST November 16, 2005Updated: 7:05 pm EST November 16, 2005
PITTSBURGH -- Target 11 investigated the issue of missing money at a nursing home.The nurse's aide was fired after more than $8,000 turned up missing from a resident's bank account.
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Where she is working now raises serious questions.A nurse's aide worked at the Southwestern Veterans Center in Pittsburgh.A spokesman for the home told Target 11 she was fired after a patient said thousand of dollars went missing from his checking account.Just last month, Target 11 found her working at another nursing home.The Southwestern Veteran's Center in Pittsburgh is home to more than 200 aging veterans, including a 75-year old man bedridden with Parkinson's disease and no family to look out for him.According to a spokesman for the center, the resident befriended nurse's aide, Marilyn Sayre.He gave her his ATM card to buy cigarettes for him.According to an incident report filed by the resident with police and the nursing home, Sayre used the ATM card more than just that once.That incident report alleges that the nurse's aide made 15 withdrawals without the resident's permission.A spokesman for the veteran's center said employees first noticed the withdrawals during a routine check.Cleaver told Target 11 Sayre was fired for an "inappropriate financial relationship."Pittsburgh police didn't pursue the case, because they said the resident didn't want to press charges.Five months after Sayre was terminated from the Southwestern Veterans Center, Target 11 discovered Sayre working at another nursing home, taking care of elderly residents again.Sayre refused to talk to Target 11.Health department spokesman Troy Thompson said the state investigated and it was satisfied.According to the department registry, Sayre is still listed as a certified nurse's aide with no substantiated findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of property even though she was fired for an inappropriate financial relationship.Target 11 contacted the nursing home where Sayre is working now and they are looking into the matter.As for the money, the 75-year-old resident said he still doesn't know what happened to it.
Where she is working now raises serious questions.A nurse's aide worked at the Southwestern Veterans Center in Pittsburgh.A spokesman for the home told Target 11 she was fired after a patient said thousand of dollars went missing from his checking account.Just last month, Target 11 found her working at another nursing home.The Southwestern Veteran's Center in Pittsburgh is home to more than 200 aging veterans, including a 75-year old man bedridden with Parkinson's disease and no family to look out for him.According to a spokesman for the center, the resident befriended nurse's aide, Marilyn Sayre.He gave her his ATM card to buy cigarettes for him.According to an incident report filed by the resident with police and the nursing home, Sayre used the ATM card more than just that once.That incident report alleges that the nurse's aide made 15 withdrawals without the resident's permission.A spokesman for the veteran's center said employees first noticed the withdrawals during a routine check.Cleaver told Target 11 Sayre was fired for an "inappropriate financial relationship."Pittsburgh police didn't pursue the case, because they said the resident didn't want to press charges.Five months after Sayre was terminated from the Southwestern Veterans Center, Target 11 discovered Sayre working at another nursing home, taking care of elderly residents again.Sayre refused to talk to Target 11.Health department spokesman Troy Thompson said the state investigated and it was satisfied.According to the department registry, Sayre is still listed as a certified nurse's aide with no substantiated findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of property even though she was fired for an inappropriate financial relationship.Target 11 contacted the nursing home where Sayre is working now and they are looking into the matter.As for the money, the 75-year-old resident said he still doesn't know what happened to it.
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