A Cecil Township woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly falsifying records at a Mt. Lebanon nursing home so it would look like residents were receiving sufficient care.
Susan Gilbert, 60, of Lawrence, was indicted this week on charges of health care fraud, obstruction of a federal audit and conspiracy to defraud the United States by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh. Gilbert is the former administrator of Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, a skilled nursing facility that is owned by the same company that operates the Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Beaver County, which is being investigated by the state for criminal neglect due to the large number of residents that became infected with COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic.
PITTSBURGH The former administrator of a Mount Lebanon skilled nursing home has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, health care fraud and obstruction of a federal audit, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today.
The three-count Indictment, returned on February 24, 2021, named Susan Gilbert, of Lawrence, Pennsylvania, as the sole defendant. These criminal charges represent the first step in holding accountable those who put profit over the health and safety of seniors, said U.S. Attorney Brady. From 2018-2020, Gilbert and co-conspirators deprived seniors of patient care using inflated nursing hours, falsified timecards and other schemes that they concealed with two sets of records. We will continue to pursue every lead until justice has been achieved for seniors and their families in western Pennsylvania.
Ex-Pennsylvania nursing home administrator charged in fraud over care hours Phil Helsel
The former administrator of a Pennsylvania nursing home was indicted this week and accused of scheming to falsely inflate work records to meet staffing requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said.
Susan Gilbert, 60, of Lawrence, was indicted Wednesday by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, health care fraud and obstruction of a federal audit, said the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania. These crimes put facility residents at risk by only providing a dangerously low amount of nursing staff just before COVID began to surge across the country, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a statement, referring to the pandemic that has now killed more than a half-million people in the U.S.
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