New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office on Thursday announced the indictment of an “imposter nurse” who defrauded three Albuquerque-area hospice centers and nearly caused the death of a patient. (Photo by Austin Fisher / Source NM)
New Mexico prosecutors allege that an “imposter nurse” nearly caused the death of a hospice patient earlier this summer after working for three health care providers in Albuquerque for a year-and-a-half using a stolen identity.
A Bernalillo County grand jury on Aug. 22 indicted 26-year-old April Guadalupe Hernandez, of Los Lunas, with 19 criminal counts including falsifying documents, nursing without a license, fraud, identity theft and abuse…