Commonwealth v. Hillhaven Corp.

CLAYTON, Judge.

On December 22, 1982, the present appeal began as a complaint filed in the Jefferson District Court by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office. The Attorney General charges by that complaint that the appel-lee, Hillhaven Corporation, violated KRS 508.070 and KRS 502.050 relating to wanton endangerment. The affidavit accompanying the complaint accuses employees of Hillhaven, a 180-bed nursing home located in Louisville, Kentucky, of engaging in conduct wantonly endangering Viola Fitzgerald by their failure to provide necessary and proper care to…