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-Jeremy Bush, 13, took a Dodge Caravan from Woodward Children’s Home, a ResCare facility in <br />Charleston, and drove half a mile before he crashed into a stone wall. Fire consumed the van, <br />and Bush died at the scene. Though his death is still under investigation, state OHFLAC surveyors <br />recently verified several cases of clients leaving other ResCare locations. <br />-A ResCare agency in Clarksburg discovered a neighbor of one facility returned its resident on <br />Jan. 17, 2016. It was the client’s fifth time leaving without anyone noticing. The client entered <br />the neighbor’s home and made himself a cup of coffee. When the neighbor brought him home, <br />she found an unlocked gate, a faulty doorbell and a staff member asleep on the couch, <br />according to OHFLAC. <br />-A facility under the same agency lost a client in 2015 and found him in a company vehicle later <br />that day. An employee reported the disappearance a day later after she overheard two nurses <br />talking about the incident. <br />-A ResCare facility in Parkersburg waited two days to report an employee who sexually abused <br />two clients in 2015, OHFLAC found. <br />-In 2015, a woman employed by a ResCare office in Buckhannon said she suffered from <br />nightmares after a client tried to rape her at an understaffed residential facility. <br />-In its lawsuit, the State of Texas and Ms. Hudnall alleged that, since on or before June 2000, <br />ResCare and Citadel, defrauded and continued to defraud, state and federal governments out of <br />millions of dollars through various false or fraudulent schemes emphasizing profits over patient <br />health and welfare. These practices included: <br />1.BILLING FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES THAT WERE UNNECESSARY, ILLEGAL, OR WERE <br />NEVER ACTUALLY PROVIDED; <br />2.FALSIFYING PATIENT RECORDS TO JUSTIFY CONTINUED BILLING FOR TREATMENTS AND <br />SERVICES WHICH WERE OF NO HELP TO PATIENTS; <br />3.BACKDATING AND FALSIFYING TREATMENT PLANS AND PATIENT RECORDS TO ENSURE <br />THAT MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY WOULD NOT LAPSE, SO THAT BILLING FOR UNNECESSARY <br />SERVICES COULD CONTINUE; <br />4.BILLING FOR UNNECESSARY AND NON-REIMBURSABLE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES SUCH <br />AS PIZZA PARTIES AND CAR RIDES; AND <br />5.BILLING FOR THERAPY SERVICES WHILE PATIENTS WERE ACTUALLY ASLEEP. <br />-In Kentucky: The lawsuit was filed in Lake Circuit/Superior Court after Megan Catherine Akers, <br />33, a Chesterton resident and employee of ResCare Inc., was charged in Lake Superior Court <br />with battery and neglect of a dependent in the alleged assault.Akers was one of five ResCare <br />