Resdients legs tied together for 8 hours.
N.Y. Newsday had an article about a nursing home employee abusing an 80-year-old female patient by tying her legs together during an eight-hour shift, without supervision or authorization. CNA Candice Pelzer was assigned to care for the patient on the midnight to 8 a.m. shift in November 2008. Pelzer bound the woman "without advising anyone of [the] restraint. Pelzer, who was working at the Berkshire Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, surrendered to Medicaid fraud unit, and was charged with endangering the welfare of a physically disabled or incompetent person and violating the public health law.
"The conduct alleged in today's arrest is despicable - a disheartening violation of the trust Long Islanders put in health care professionals to care for their loved ones," Attorney General Cuomo said in a statement.
The worst and most intriguing part of the article is the fact that several unnamed witnesses saw the elderly patient with her legs tied together but did nothing to assist her or intervene on her behalf. Pelzer initially admitted tying a sheet around the woman but later said she only used it to wrap her legs.
