A Centennial nursing home employee was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of elder abuse and a warrant is out for a second employee’s arrest, sheriff’s officials said.
Patience Jackson, a 33-year-old certified nursing assistant at Orchard Park Health Care Center, was arrested on investigation of three felony charges, including criminal negligence, crimes against an at-risk person and complicity, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators also issued an arrest warrant for Zainab Namale, a licensed practical nurse at the same facility, sheriff’s officials said.
Jackson and Namale lied about how a 92-year-old nursing home resident broke her leg and worked to cover up what really happened, sheriff’s officials said.
Sky Ridge Medical Center employees told investigators that the victim’s injuries — two broken bones in her lower leg — were not consistent with what Jackson and Namale wrote in their nursing home report.
That report said the victim was found sitting in her wheelchair, screaming for help in terrible pain, that no one had seen her fall and the employees did not know what happened, according to the sheriff’s office.
Investigators believe the 92-year-old’s broken leg, which happened on May 8, was caused by criminal negligence.
Jackson was booked into the Arapahoe County Detention Facility and is being held on a $2,500 bond. A court date had not yet been scheduled as of Thursday morning.
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