Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the State Board of Nursing temporarily suspended the certification of a homemaker-home health aide charged with recklessly causing the death of an 85-year-old woman in her care at an Essex County nursing home. Monique Beaucejour, 46, of Bloomfield, was working as Certified Nursing Assistant at Genesis Waterview Center in Cedar Grove last month when she allegedly left an elderly woman, who required total assistance with care, sitting on her bed. The woman suffered a fall with serious head injuries, but instead of immediately summoning medical assistance, Beaucejour allegedly placed the woman back in bed, and left her there. Beaucejour later returned to the room and summoned help for the woman, pretending to have just discovered her lying injured in bed, according to the accusations. The woman was transported to the hospital and died later that day. Police charged Beaucejour with reckless manslaughter, obstructing the administration of law, suppressing evidence to hinder prosecution, and abandonment/neglect of an elderly person in connection.
