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Two Escambia Assisted Living Facility Bosses Arrested For Abuse And Neglect
July 18, 2014
Two Escambia County assisted living facility employees were arrested Thursday for abuse and neglect.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested Kipling Manor Administrator Belie Brock Williams and Assistant Administrator Adrienne Taylor.
Williams allegedly refused psychological nursing caregivers entrance into the Kipling Manor facility to assist mental health residents resulting in residents without care for two to three weeks. Taylor allegedly failed caregiver responsibilities to protect the residents from the abuse and did not ensure residents received prescribed nursing services. Investigators received information regarding the alleged abuse and neglect from the Northwest Florida Long Term Care Ombudsman Program Office.
Williams faces three counts of abuse and Taylor faces three counts of neglect, all third degree felonies. If convicted, they each could receive up to 15 years in prison and $15,000 in fines. This case will be prosecuted by the First Judicial Circuit Office of State Attorney Bill Eddins.
Williams was released from the Santa Rosa County Jail on a $30,000 bond, while Taylor was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $30,000 bond.
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10 Responses to “Two Escambia Assisted Living Facility Bosses Arrested For Abuse And Neglect”
Those who abuse the elderly , and in their hour of need to boot, have especially cold hearts. Full time care of a loved one is a huge act of love that is also most tiring. Facilities like this are meant to ease the workload for people and help to keep their loved one safe, not increase the workload and add fear. Those who cannot bear the thought of doing with love and care the daunting task of caring for the elderly should not even go near this profession. Realistic challenges can be keeping the person safely in their home, medical needs that require a professional, having to continue to earn a living to provide for the elderly person. Conditions such as dementia & Alzheimer’s can mean having the patient go from loving one moment to confused , angry and combative the next moment. It is emotionally and physically exhausting, heartbreaking. People who turned a care facility into a gulag removed, now let’s hope for just punishment!
We had to go through the same stuff at another local nursing center. We moved my father in law from one to another because of the care. The one he stayed at for 3 months wasn’t much better. The whole place reeked of urine. He was there for rehab and is now in an private (no state assistance) assisted living facility where they treat him like a King, but it’s $2,100 per month too. After his discharge from the nursing home, we had a bill of over $8,000 that Medicare didn’t pay and he wasn’t eligible for Medicaid. I had to fight with them and get the company’s CEO involved just to see what we were being charged for. I have no doubt that it’s Medicare fraud, but I couldn’t get any help. They said they charged for cutting up his foods because he couldn’t swallow. No, he has Parkinson’s. He can’t hold silverware long enough to cut up food, but really, charging extra to cut food? These places need far more scrutiny than they get.
My patents are in Century care Center they ate really good they do a lots with the residents they got the star award.
@Molino Jim – you are exactly right. I also have “The 36 Hour Day”, and it is a very good book on the subject. A good nursing home is very hard to find, but there are some good ones around here. The trick is getting in and having it close enough to go by regularly to check on your loved one regularly (which is daily, if you can.)
@MolinoMan. The hard part is finding a place in this area. My wife was in “rehab” at a local location and I did not like the place– but it was the only room we could get when she was discharged from the hospital. The payments from federal/state/insurance has dropped over the years and there is so little profit that no one wants to build new locations. The cost cutting has nothing to do with ObamaCare, it has been going on for a while. The floor people at the location tried to do their best. I feel very sorry for the people in these places– but where else can they go? Most families can not give full time care to the family members who are warehoused in these places. The care giver has burn out at some point. There is a wonderful book about being a full time care giver–”The 36 Hour Day”, it give the truth about taking care of someone all of the time. It should be required reading for anyone who thinks–”there’s nothing to taking care of _______ (fill in the blank).
My wife worked at Kipling and testified against them. When she got there, residents hair was dirty and matted, fingernails dirty and long, and some smelled of urine that they had sat in for awhile. She couldn’t keep up. Most of the other employees hated her not because she cared, but because they didnt and it showed.
There are not just elderly people, but young people as well. It was more of a psych unit than a nursing home. Most suffered dementia. Ultimately my wife was terminated in February for telling others how to treat patients and how they should do their job. There were just too many people who didnt care.
When we had the ice storm I personally witnessed Mr. Williams curse residents and call them names. I drove my wife that morning and was appaled at the cheap, old decor and how unclean the place was. It looked more like something I’d use for a bunkhouse for a hunting camp, not somewhere to care for my mother or father. It’s finally caught up to them.
Thank you to those who made it possible.
This is sickening. How do ppl abuse and take advantage of the elderly? Just greed. I do hope these ppl if found guilty of this abuse, are punished to the maximum extent possible.
I have heard nightmares about this place… It is a variable hell-on-Earth for its residents. How it is still operating is beyond my comprehension.
Who ever has loved ones in there should seriously consider taking them somewhere else.
This place should be made into a parking lot it would serve more of a purpose than a monument to elderly abuse.
I am glad to see this happen. The Agency for Health Care Administration has a list of complaints going back 10 years on Kipling Manor, thankfully they finally revoked their license. It had gotten to the point where the patients were prisoners, held incommunicado for what get Kipling could get out of Medicaid or Medicare. While their were good and caring people that worked there; there was a lot of theft of patient property. In short the only thing that mattered to the owner was money and he preyed upon a weak and virtually defenseless section of society.
http://www.floridahealthfinder.gov/facilitylocator/FacilityProfilePage.aspx?id=1318
I hope they get a judge who will throw book at them!!!!!! I am tried of people abusing something or someone and getting a slap on the hand! Whether it is a person or an animal , they deserve better.
me
just yelling and
hoping someone hears