A King County jury returned guilty verdicts on all charges against a man who used stolen nurse identities to place unqualified workers in nursing homes.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, David Mungai Njenga created a sham staffing agency in Kent, called Heritage Medical Staffing, Inc., before renaming it to Pro Med Alliance Medical Staffing, Inc., and collected payments for what facilities believed were licensed nurses, but were instead “impostor nurses” using identities and credentials of real nurses that he stole.
Many of the impostor nurses displayed a lack of basic healthcare knowledge, including how to take a patient’s blood pressure or administer the correct medication…