Home Health & Hospice Week
If you're not conducting criminal background
If you're not conducting criminal background checks carefully, it could close your doors. That's what happened to Golden Heart In Home Care in St. Albans, W. Va. Back in April, federal prosecutors filed a civil suit accusing Golden Heart and its owners, Shida Jamie and her son Jimmy, of failing to conduct background checks, as well as hiring convicted felons, failing to furnish training and falsifying related documents, and billing for services never performed, according to newspaper reports. The feds raided three locations and seized 55 boxes of documents. A federal judge has closed the company and frozen Jamie's assets. Jamie told the Charleston Gazette she plans to fight the suit. "If I lose, I lose, but I want people to hear me," she told the newspaper. She has asked the judge to unfreeze her assets. The U.S. Attorney's Office also has told Jamie she might face criminal charges. Red Flag: The agency may have come to the feds' attention when Jimmy Jamie claimed he earned $2.2 million a year as a health care executive, which landed him on the cover of Parade Magazine's annual "What People Earn" issue (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XVIII, No. 20, p. 156). Jimmy was dropped from the case when he acknowledged that he had never earned that salary and said he was not actually a Golden Heart owner, the Gazette reports.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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