Jones v. Axelrod

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Health which denied petitioner’s request to amend or expunge the record of a report of her alleged neglect in caring for a patient in a residential health care facility.

Petitioner, a nurse employed by the Chemung County Nursing Facility, was charged with having committed an act of patient neglect in connection with an incident where a patient fell from her bed to the floor while petitioner was giving…