2 Thurston County health care providers disciplined
A Thurston County nursing assistant will not be allowed to practice in Washington state again, and a chemical dependency professional trainee has been indefinitely suspended by the state Department of Health, according to a news release.
The Nursing Assistant Program and certified nursing assistant Emily Mary Green agreed that she would voluntarily surrender her credential, meaning Green can never practice as a certified nursing assistant in Washington, and cannot be employed in caring for or having unsupervised access to vulnerable adults. The action came after the state Department of Social and Health Services found that Green abused or neglected a vulnerable adult.
Green’s credential was suspended in March 2014 after an investigation determined she abused a 90-year-old dementia patient at Garden Courte Memory Care Community on Lilly Road in Olympia, where she worked at the time. Green was found to have restrained the patient’s arms while a co-worker put a soapy rag in the patient’s mouth, making it hard for the patient to breath.
The co-worker, Cameron Malizio, 23, pleaded guilty to a count of second-degree assault in Thurston County Superior Court for the assault.
In an unrelated case, the Chemical Dependency Professional Program has indefinitely suspended the chemical dependency professional trainee credential of Willard Douglas DeRouen Jr., after he failed to comply with terms and conditions of a 2013 agreement.
The department’s Health Systems Quality Assurance Division works with boards, commissions and advisory committees to set licensing standards for more than 80 health care professions. Information about health care providers is on the agency’s website: Click on “Look up a health care provider license” in the “How Do I?” section of the Department of Health home page at doh.wa.gov. Information is also available by calling 360-236-4700.
Jerre Redecker: 360-754-5422, @jredecker
This story was originally published March 11, 2016 at 6:45 AM with the headline "2 Thurston County health care providers disciplined."