The Louisiana Attorney General announced on October 6, 2025 that a former nursing assistant at a facility in Baton Rouge has been indicted by a grand jury after an investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
According to the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, on June 14, 2024, Diamond Johnson was employed as a certified nursing assistant at Jefferson Manor when she operated a hydraulic lift by herself. Johnson used the lift to move the patient from a chair to her bed. During the lift process the patient slipped out the side of the sling, landing on the feet of the lift. The patient became unresponsive approximately 40 minutes after the fall. Resuscitation efforts of the patient were unsuccessful. An autopsy was conducted to determine the cause of death which revealed the patient passed away from complications of blunt force injuries due to fall from a patient lift at the nursing home.
On October 2, 2025, grand jury proceeding took place which resulted in an indictment of Diamond Johnson for:
- La R.S. 14:32, Negligent Homicide.
Johnson was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. The investigation is ongoing. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) submit a report to Congress evaluating the Nationwide Program for National and State Background Checks on Direct Patient Access Employees of Long-Term-Care Facilities and Providers (background check program) not later than 180 days after the program’s completion. One required element of the mandated evaluation is an assessment of the impact of the background check program on reducing the number of incidents of neglect, abuse, and misappropriation of resident property to the extent practicable.
The OIG in October 2012 reported: “The results presented in this memorandum report provide baseline information on the extent to which nurse aides had substantiated findings (1,611) and the extent to which nurse aides with substantiated findings of abuse, neglect, and/or misappropriation had previous criminal convictions (19 percent) and the nature of those convictions. The percentage of nurse aides with criminal convictions and substantiated findings is higher than the percentage of nurse aides with criminal convictions employed in nursing facilities; however, it is important to note that approximately 80 percent of nurse aides with substantiated findings had no criminal convictions in FBI-maintained criminal history records.”
If you or a loved one suffered injuries (or worse) while a resident of a nursing home in Louisiana or in another U.S. state due to nursing home neglect, nursing home negligence, nursing home abuse, nursing home under-staffing, nursing home bed sore, or the nursing home failing to properly care for a vulnerable adult, you should promptly find a nursing home claim lawyer in Louisiana or in your state who may investigate your nursing home claim for you and file a nursing home injury claim on your behalf or behalf of your loved one, if appropriate.
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