Caregiver arrested on elderly abuse charges

An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Medicaid Fraud Control Division, along with other agencies, has resulted in the arrest of a Shelbyville man, charged with the abuse and neglect of elderly patients.

In January, at the referral of Adult Protective Services, agents joined that agency and the Department of Health, in investigating a complaint that residents at an assisted living facility in Bedford County were being abused and/ or neglected. During the course of the investigation, agents developed information that identified Cody Prestwood, a licensed practical nurse at the facility, as the individual responsible for the abuse and neglect of the residents. The investigation also revealed that from December 2021 through August 2022, Prestwood failed on multiple occasions to document those incidents and failed to seek proper treatment for the individuals involved.

On November 9th, Cody Andrew Prestwood (DOB 09/17/1988) was arrested by the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office. He is charged with two counts of Aggravated Abuse of an Elderly Adult, two counts of Neglect of an Elderly Adult, and one count of Abuse of an Elderly Adult. Prestwood was booked into the Bedford County Jail, on a $250,000 bond.

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Las Vegas senior facility owner charged with abusing residents

By Sabrina Schnur

The owner and an employee of a Las Vegas senior facility were arrested on elderly abuse charges this month.

Ravette Taylor and Richard Cisneros, who were arrested Jan. 20, are each charged with seven counts of abuse of an older or vulnerable person, according to court records.

A certified nurse’s assistant who previously worked at “The Ohana Independent Living Home” called police Jan. 13 to report two elderly women were being sexually abused, beaten and overmedicated at the senior care facility, according to an arrest report from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Police found eight residents, including a man suffering from Parkinson’s disease who was immobile, another man who was blind, deaf and suffering from dementia and six women suffering from advanced dementia. Taylor told police that neither she nor any employees had training in the medical field.

In her interview with police, Taylor, the owner, said she bought the home from a registered nurse in 2018.

She told police she didn’t get the property registered as a group home, which would allow her to care for patients with advanced needs, because the fire department told her that getting the home up to code would cost $16,000. Instead, she registered it as an independent living facility.

“She admitted she was aware the residents needed a high level of care and admitted her business was not providing the care required,” police said in the report.

“When asked she stated she had never presented herself as a medical professional to the social workers at the hospital but had never told the social workers that the prior owner was no longer associated with the business and that (Taylor) was not a medical professional,” the report continued.

Cisneros told police he was not familiar with caring for patients who are immobile and was unsure of how often to change their positions to prevent bedsores. He said he usually moved patients once at the beginning and end of his shift.

Police redacted the location of the home in the report, and the secretary of state’s business licensing department had no record of the facility.

Cisneros was released without bail, and Taylor was released after posting bail. The two are scheduled to appear in court again Feb. 22.

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