Remmers v. DeBuono

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Health which found petitioner guilty of mistreating a patient while discharging her duties as a nurse’s aide.

At all times relevant herein petitioner was employed as a nurse’s aide at a nursing home in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County. On the evening of July 8, 1992 petitioner was assigned to the third-floor north wing; she claims that a male patient from the east wing who was confined to a wheelchair, and who…