by Bill Atkinson
COLONIAL HEIGHTS – One of the four nursing home employees jailed for elder abuse leading to a former patient’s death has been released on bond.
Court records indicate Kamesha Michelle Kittrell, of Richmond, was granted a $2,500 bond at a hearing Monday in Colonial Heights General District Court. She is facing two counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult resulting in death and one count of abuse involving injury.
Kittrell, the head of nursing at Colonial Heights Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, was among 18 employees arrested Dec. 18 on various charges surrounding the death of a 74-year-old woman whose family said she had been abused and neglected during her stay at the center. Kittrell and three others, including the nursing home’s director, faced the most serious of all the charges.
Shawanda Jeter, 46, of Richmond, the center’s director, Stephanie Cline Davis, 53, of Disputanta, and Shakima Freeman Brewer, of Richmond, were the other employees jailed. Court records indicate they remain in custody at Riverside Regional Jail in Prince George County.
As part of her bond, Kittrell is not allowed to return to the Ellerslie Avenue facility, work in the medical field or have any contact with the other defendants until her case is adjudicated.
Prosecutors contend that while Kittrell did not have direct contact with the victim – who they claim died of sepsis last October due to the lack of attention received – she is culpable for the death due to her nursing-head duties for oversight of staff and proper medical care.
Kittrell, Jeter and Davis are all due back in court March 26 for preliminary hearings on the charges. Brewer is set for a bond hearing Jan. 7.
The remaining 14 suspects were all granted bond at the time of their arrests. Most of those charges involved falsifying patient records.
The arrests happened Dec. 18 when Colonial Heights Police, the state Department of Health and the Virginia attorney general’s Elder Abuse Task Force raided the center.
In a statement Dec. 19
to The Progress-Index, Colonial Heights Rehab management said it was
“cooperating fully” with the investigation. No other statements have
been released since.
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