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Kentucky Nursing Home Neglect Attorney

7/22/2008
Hans G. Poppe
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Foxes in the Hen House- State has to fire Two Kentucky Nursing Home Inspectors...

According to the Courier-Journal, the Kentucky has fired a second state employee arsing out of allegations of misconduct. On May 21, the state fired a nursing home inspection official with the Department of Public Health. The State determined that Moses Young had been living rent free in a Lexington townhouse owned by a company operated by a Covington nursing home president, Ralph L. Stacey, Jr. Now, it turns out that Young had a roomate, Sharon Harris, a former nurse administrator with the Department of Public Health. Both have denied any wrongdoing.

Young has been unable to provide any proof that he paid his own rent and Harris has refused to provide any information bout the townhouse in which she currently lives. According to the Courier, this is not the first time Harris has been fired for a potential conflict with Stacey's nursing homes. In 2002, while working as a nurse consultant for the state Medicaid Department, she was fired for having a second job working at one of Stacey's nursing homes. Although she was fired, she one an appeal and was reinstated. Harris claims she has been singled out by the office of the Inspector General.

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