Sheilah Hernandez, a nurse aide at the Beth Sholom Home in Richmond, was charged with touching the vaginal area of a patient who recently had a stroke and was aphasic – the patient couldn’t speak as a result of brain damage.
Hernandez has anxiety and depression but doesn’t take her meds.
That was obvious at a meeting of the board when Hernandez “made suicidal comments, pounded a table, threw objects, screamed, cried, crawled under a table, and attempted to cut her wrist,” the notice from the board said. Hernandez was taken to a hospital after the incident. She has been hospitalized at least three times for suicidal “thoughts or actions.”
The consent order only says that Hernandez’s license was suspended, but a full meeting of the board is scheduled for September, the notice said. The notice, which was issued the same day as the consent order and lists the findings of fact, also noted that if found guilty, Hernandez will be banned from working in any long term nursing facility that receives Medicaid or Medicare reimbursement.
I searched the Richmond court case database for anything on her, but found nothing… I’m going to keep track of this one, so be on the look out for updates in a few months.
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