San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area firm fined for hiring caregivers with criminal backgrounds
A Daly City-based caregiver company was fined by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office for illegally placing aides with criminal backgrounds in the homes of elderly and disabled people.
The DA’s office and the Home Care Services branch of the California Department of Social Services investigated the company, Serving Seniors.Care, after one of their aides stole thousands of dollars from an elderly Palo Alto man using the company’s services, the DA’s office said on Thursday. The investigation also showed that something similar happened with one of their aides hired by a client in a different county — that aide stole thousands of dollars from the person they were hired to help, the DA’s office said.
According to Serving Seniors.Care’s website their services include companion care, memory loss care and hospice care. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the case.
The company was fined $100,000 in civil penalties for unfair competition and false advertising, according to the DA’s office.