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November 6, 2008
Florida Nursing Home Nurse Arrested After Leaving Patients to Fend for Themselves
Epifania Fitzgerald was in charge of caring for twenty-one assisted living patients in Pinellas County, Florida. Instead, she put one of her patients in charge and left the facility, returning two and a half hours later. She was met by Pinellas County deputies who had been called to the facility by a 911 call placed by another resident after an 88 year old woman had slipped and fallen in the bathroom.
Fitzgerald has been charged with one count of abuse and neglect of the elderly and one count of possession of Vicodin. She remained in jail on November 1, 2008 with a bond of $12,000. Authorities will not identify the facility involved.
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