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NURSE PLEADS GUILTY

Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, June 5, 2006



(Wilmington): Sandra L. Edwards, a licensed nurse and the former Director of Nursing at a nursing home known as Green Valley Pavilion, LLC, pled guilty this morning in Kent County Superior Court to one count of Felony Health Care Fraud and one count of Felony Conspiracy to Commit Healthcare Fraud.

Delaware’s health care fraud statute, 11 Del. C. 913A, provides for enhanced penalties if the person charged was a health care provider, and if the fraud scheme in question constituted a pattern of behavior. Edwards admitted she was a health care provider at the time of the offense and that the illegal conduct she engaged in constituted a pattern of behavior. With respect to the Conspiracy count, Edwards admitted conspiring with four other nurses ” Mary Casper, Denise Rhinehart, Mary Yarrington, and Jann Cox ” to illegally alter various medical records of residents at Green Valley Pavilion in order to further a fraudulent billing scheme.

Edwards is scheduled to be sentenced on September 12, 2006, where she will face a maximum of seventeen years in jail.

This investigation is still continuing and anyone with further information on this matter, can contact Chief Detective John Miller at (302) 577-8938.
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NURSE PLEADS GUILTY

Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, June 5, 2006



(Wilmington): Sandra L. Edwards, a licensed nurse and the former Director of Nursing at a nursing home known as Green Valley Pavilion, LLC, pled guilty this morning in Kent County Superior Court to one count of Felony Health Care Fraud and one count of Felony Conspiracy to Commit Healthcare Fraud.

Delaware’s health care fraud statute, 11 Del. C. 913A, provides for enhanced penalties if the person charged was a health care provider, and if the fraud scheme in question constituted a pattern of behavior. Edwards admitted she was a health care provider at the time of the offense and that the illegal conduct she engaged in constituted a pattern of behavior. With respect to the Conspiracy count, Edwards admitted conspiring with four other nurses ” Mary Casper, Denise Rhinehart, Mary Yarrington, and Jann Cox ” to illegally alter various medical records of residents at Green Valley Pavilion in order to further a fraudulent billing scheme.

Edwards is scheduled to be sentenced on September 12, 2006, where she will face a maximum of seventeen years in jail.

This investigation is still continuing and anyone with further information on this matter, can contact Chief Detective John Miller at (302) 577-8938.
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