Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the State Board of Nursing has permanently revoked the certification of a certified homemaker-home health aide who was arrested for allegedly tying a 71-year-old woman with dementia patient to a chair while caring for the woman in a Gloucester County assisted living facility. Afua Dankwah, 51, of Morrisville, Pa., was charged with endangering another person and abandonment/neglect of an elderly, disabled adult in connection with the alleged incident that occurred in the woman’s apartment at the Juniper Village/Well Springs Assisted Living Facility in Monroe Township last fall. After receiving notice of Dankwah’s arrest, the Board investigated the allegations and found that Dankwah’s actions were cause for disciplinary sanctions for gross negligence, professional misconduct, and engaging in a crime or offense of moral turpitude. To resolve the matter, Dankwah agreed to the permanent revocation of her certification to practice as a homemaker-home health aide in New Jersey.
