By JOHN RABY | Associated Press | Published: May 10, 2021 CHARLESTON, W.Va. Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitted to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin at a West Virginia hospital. Still a mystery is what provoked Reta Mays to commit the crimes. Mays pleaded guilty last year to intentionally killing the patients with wrongful insulin injections at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. She faces up to life in prison for each of seven counts of second-degree murder when she is sentenced Tuesday in federal court. Mays, 46, of Reynoldsville, admitted at a July plea hearing to injecting the veterans with unprescribed insulin while she worked overnight shifts at the northern West Virginia hospital between 2017 and 2018. Hospital officials reported the deaths to the VA inspector general and fired Mays.
2021/05/10 22:21 FILE - This photo released July 14, 2020, by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Reta Mays. Mays, a former nursi. FILE - This photo released July 14, 2020, by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Reta Mays. Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.V., is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, May 11, 2021, for her guilty plea to intentionally killing seven patients with fatal doses of insulin. (West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP) CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin at a West Virginia hospital. Still a mystery is what provoked Reta Mays to commit the crimes.
Sentencing set for former nursing assistant who admitted to killing 7 VA patients in West Virginia 5 days ago This photo released July 14, 2020, by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Reta Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.Va. (West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP) CHARLESTON, W.Va. Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin at a West Virginia hospital. Still a mystery is what provoked Reta Mays to commit the crimes.
Proctor said she not only wants to see Mays spend the rest of her life in prison,
she wants the VA to make sure this sort of thing can t happen again. “I don’t want to see it happen anywhere,” she said.
VA watchdog identified safety failings at hospital
In December, the VA announced that an internal review at the hospital had “identified concerns as to safe patient care and ineffective reporting of adverse events.”
The agency replaced the hospital s director and head nursing executive. It conducted a “safety stand-down” in which noncritical patients weren t admitted for several weeks. The VA said hospital staff were retrained in how to report critical patient care incidents.