An Atlantic City woman is accused of assuming a nurse aide’s identity after she lost her own certification in 2017.
Christine Sanford, 31, didn’t let the state Department of Health’s revocation stop her from working as a Certified Nurse Aide, the charges claim.
Instead, she allegedly took on another woman’s identity to work at the Barnegat Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Barnegat in November 2018.
Sanford was indicted this week on third-degree charges of forgery, identify theft and uttering of false government documents.
The indictments obtained today stem from investigations conducted by Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which receives federal funding to investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud as well as the abuse or neglect of Medicaid patients, or patients who reside in facilities that receive Medicaid funding.
The crimes carry a maximum sentence of five years each in state prison and a fine of as much as $15,000.
