Nurse charged with neglect in dying of Riverside nursing household resident

A registered nurse who labored at a Riverside assisted living facility has been charged with abuse by neglect of a 69-yr-outdated woman who died right after she made gangrene, authorities mentioned Wednesday.

Emily Jones, 40, of Riverside pleaded not guilty to elder abuse that brought on great bodily damage and remains free on $50,000 bail, the condition lawyer general’s business office mentioned.

She could confront up to 10 yrs in jail if convicted.

Jones was a situation manager for a resident at Brookdale Senior Living in 2017 when she failed to effectively assess an ulcer on the woman’s suitable heel, prosecutors mentioned.

“As a outcome, a Program of Treatment was never ever developed and the ulcer worsened into a wound that necessary the resident to go through unexpected emergency surgery to her correct foot, which had develop into septic and gangrenous,” the attorney general’s place of work stated in a statement.

Jones also unsuccessful to notify a medical doctor and the woman’s spouse and children that her heallth was declining as a final result of the absence of care and she eventually died, prosecutors explained.

“Elder abuse does not generally occur in the kind of a physical attack. It can consequence from utter neglect and lack of good care, as we allege in the scenario of Emily Jones,” Lawyer Standard Xavier Becerra claimed in his office’s statement. “Assisted living citizens are a susceptible population all too typically victimized by functions of neglect and improper treatment.”

“Brookdale Senior Dwelling does not have a file of employing anyone with this title and date of delivery, including at its former Brookdale Riverside locale, so we can’t give a remark on this case,” said a statement from Tennessee-centered Brookdale Senior Residing.

“With that becoming said,” the statement included, “Brookdale can take the safety and wellbeing of our citizens pretty seriously and this kind of perform or habits by an person at Brookdale would never be tolerated below any circumstance.”