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(NewsNation) — The Florida woman who allegedly treated thousands of patients for astir 2 years portion posing arsenic a licensed caregiver was capable to prolong the ruse done a bid of fraudulent maneuvers, the sheriff whose bureau arrested her says.
Autumn Marie Bardisa, 29, of Palm Coast, was arrested Tuesday and deed with charges that see practicing wellness attraction without a licence and fraudulent usage of idiosyncratic recognition information. She provided aesculapian services to astir 4,500 radical from June 2024 until January 2025, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sheriff Rick Staly appeared connected Friday's “Banfield” to explicate however Bardisa could person pulled disconnected specified an alleged con.
He said she graduated from assemblage with a nursing grade but failed her authorities licensing exam. A infirmary hired her arsenic an precocious caregiver tech nether the supervision of a registered licence nurse, helium said, with the knowing she would walk the licensing exam. Bardisa, however, did not amusement up connected the exam date, the sheriff said.
Nurse imposter lied astir matrimony to explicate antithetic name: Sheriff
When infirmary officials asked her for her licence number, Staly said Bardisa gave them 1 for a pistillate with a antithetic past name, explaining she’d gotten married.
“What she had done is assumed the sanction and individuality of different caregiver that is, successful fact, registered successful Florida and licensed, who had the aforesaid archetypal sanction but a antithetic past name,” Staly said.
The infirmary ended up firing Bardisa aft she failed to supply a matrimony certificate proving her sanction change, helium said. The instauration aboriginal notified the sheriff’s office, which began investigating.
Bardisa took the authorities licensing exam and passed, helium said, and was moving for a location wellness attraction bureau astatine the clip of her arrest.
She was being held connected $70,000 enslaved astatine the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, his bureau said.
