Nursing home workers from three of the biggest chains in the state, including an Easton nursing home, voted Monday to send unfair labor practice strike notices for the companies’ failures to provide information about agency staffing and costs, and for not bargaining in good faith.
Ex-Pennsylvania nursing home administrator charged in fraud over care hours Phil Helsel
The former administrator of a Pennsylvania nursing home was indicted this week and accused of scheming to falsely inflate work records to meet staffing requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said.
Susan Gilbert, 60, of Lawrence, was indicted Wednesday by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, health care fraud and obstruction of a federal audit, said the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania. These crimes put facility residents at risk by only providing a dangerously low amount of nursing staff just before COVID began to surge across the country, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a statement, referring to the pandemic that has now killed more than a half-million people in the U.S.