Reporting Party Case Study

Reporting party (RP) received a call from a "whistle blower", Regina Horn, who stated that she is a former employee of this facility. Ms. Horn reported that the administrator has been verbally and physically abusing the 3 residents that reside in the home: Brandy Venn (DOB: 08/02/81), Kristal Murphy (DOB: 05/03/95) and Ashton Murphy (07/31/93). Ms. Horn stated that the administrator yells at the residents and even uses a belt to hit them. Ms. Horn stated that she worked at the facility for 3 months until 07/19/17 because she could not take it anymore. It was reported by Ms. Horn to RP that she is really not employed at the home since she was only getting paid cash. RP asked Ms. Horn why she was not hired as an employee and Ms. Horn mentioned

that it had something to do with her background check. Ms. Horn also mentioned that staff Charlotte was hired despite of an allegation of her abusing a resident at another care home. Ms. Horn disclosed that the administrator has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and is facing divorce at this time. RP visited the facility and spoke with staff and discovered that there were 2 new staff members working there; Flory Rutherford who has been employed for 1 1/2 months and Tina Mikaio for 3 weeks. When RP asked them the names of the other employees, they did not mention Ms. Horn's name and claimed that there was no one working at the facility by that name.