A girl has been arrested within the US on suspicion of posing as a registered nurse.
A police investigation was launched after hospital bosses terminated Autumn Bardisa’s contract as a result of issues about her {qualifications}.
Investigators discovered the 29-year-old had offered medical providers to 4,486 sufferers between June 2024 and January 2025.
“This is among the most annoying instances of medical fraud we have ever investigated,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly stated.
Bardisa was employed by AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway in Palm Coast from July 2023 to January 2025.
She is accused of submitting false documentation and offering a licence quantity belonging to a nurse with the identical first identify who was employed by AdventHealth at a unique hospital.
The Sheriff’s Workplace stated she had defined the discrepancy by claiming she had just lately received married and had modified her surname. She was requested to supply her marriage licence however by no means did.
In January, Bardisa was supplied a promotion. A colleague reported her to authorities after they realised her nursing assistant licence had expired.
Her contract was then terminated and a seven-month legal investigation was launched.
Detectives carried out an arrest warrant for her for seven counts of practising a well being care occupation with out a licence and 7 counts of fraudulent use of private identification data.
She was arrested, carrying scrubs, at her house on 5 August.
“This lady doubtlessly put hundreds of lives in danger by pretending to be somebody she was not and violating the belief of sufferers, their households, AdventHealth and a whole medical group,” stated Sheriff Staly.
The Sheriff’s workplace has arrange a devoted e mail handle, fakenursecase@flaglersheriff.com, for individuals who imagine they’ve been handled by the 29-year-old.
Bardisa has been remanded in custody at Sheriff Perry Corridor Inmate Detention Facility, the place she is being held on a $70,000 (round £52,000) bond.
