Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center nurse Amber Henderson pleads not guilty to elderly patient’s death

CLEVELAND (WJW) — A Cleveland nurse indicted in the death of an 84-year-old nursing home patient, who was found unresponsive outside the facility in winter, nine hours after she went missing, appeared in court on Thursday.

Amber Henderson was employed as a nurse at the Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center, which had been caring for 84-year-old Alvera Meuti, the FOX 8 I-Team reported in March .

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A Warrensville Heights police reported obtained by I-Team showed the woman was last seen by a nurse at 8:40 p.m. on Dec. 23, but police were not notified of her disappearance for nine hours.

Meuti was found on a patio outside the facility on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24. She died later at a hospital.

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Henderson was indicted in March by a Cuyahoga County grand jury on charges of involuntary manslaughter, patient neglect and tampering with records, to which she pleaded not guilty on Thursday…

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