COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — More than one month after police officers and state agents conducted a sweeping raid of a Colonial Heights nursing home at the center of an elder abuse investigation, another staff member has been charged with a felony.
Michelle Beddoe was arrested Tuesday. She now faces one count of abuse of a vulnerable adult resulting in death.
Beddoe works as a nurse manager at the Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Ellerslie Avenue, and investigators say she managed the unit where the victim resided.
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Prosecutors have identified the victim as a 74-year-old woman who suffered from cerebral palsy and diabetes prior to her death, which investigators say was caused by sepsis due to poor care at the facility.
Per her role, Beddoe was required to know the status of all the patients in her unit, assess their acuity, and make sure they were being taken care of properly, but she failed to do that, according to prosecutors.
Beddoes's arrest makes her the 19th staff member to be charged in connection with this case, which first made headlines when the raid took place the morning of Dec. 18.
Within a week, the Colonial Heights detective handling the case had received 84 complaints from community members about concerns related to the nursing home, according to prosecutors.
Last week, a doctor at the facility was charged in connection with the death of another patient.
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Beddoe was arraigned Wednesday morning and requested a court-appointed attorney. She was also granted bond, under the condition that she cannot work in healthcare, pending the outcome of this case.
Beddoe and many of the other defendants are due back in court on March 26.
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