In a plea agreement, Staveley admitted that, in November 2016, while employed at a nursing home in Cedar Falls, Iowa, she used her patients’ identities to get drugs. Staveley got pills containing hydrocodone by accessing her patients’ prescribed medications and diverting pain pills to herself. Staveley’s victims were long-term residents of the nursing home who had chronic pain and were on Medicare at the time.
To cover up her scheme, Staveley destroyed an original medication log, placed it in a trash can, and replaced it with a fake medication log. When the nursing home discovered her thefts and asked her to provide a urine sample for testing, Staveley provided the nursing home with a fake urine sample consisting of toilet water. Because the sample obviously had flecks of toilet paper in it and no urine color, the nursing home obtained an actual urine sample from Staveley. This urine tested positive for the use of opiates, marijuana, and hydrocodone. The nursing home terminated Staveley’s employment.
