# Colorado CNA hired as sole employee of assisted living facility! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848 "2023-12-20T00:16:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848/1 "2023-12-20T00:16:19Z")
After SIX YEARS of being on duty 24/7/365, she sued and was awarded $850,000. One wonders how and why anything like this was allowed to happen, although I suspect her skin color and foreign surname (there are some Ayos in my area; they’re Nigerian) was a factor. Not only was she exploited, her patients were too. > **[She worked 365 days a year and made minimum wage. A judge just awarded her...](https://www.cpr.org/2023/06/15/meadow-vista-assisted-living-denver-wage-theft-verdict/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR3f0zHwZMRRKS0ijRvFLgDJkbAK45uuVM38UiMz-IQVmL6x9oyu8vIHzrQ)** > > Aleta Ayo was tasked with caring for over six people at a time and was the sole employee at Meadow Vista Assisted Living. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848/2 "2023-12-20T00:39:54Z")
But it’s not our fault! We couldn’t hire anyone! No matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t find any other trained medical professionals willing to work for minimum wage! What do you want us to do, force them into slavery at gunpoint? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848/3 "2023-12-20T00:42:26Z")
Please, keep it down. I don’t want Ivy\* to hear this. As for the employee in the story. Good for her. She couldn’t have been any more deserving. Unconscionable that place thought one person was enough. (\*Ivy is my sole CNA, I may need to get her some help. Hmmm?) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848/4 "2023-12-20T00:45:01Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > (\*Ivy is my sole CNA, I may need to get her some help. Hmmm?) She needs an emotional support possum. _nods_ ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848/5 "2023-12-20T00:49:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > But it’s not our fault! We couldn’t hire anyone! No matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t find any other trained medical professionals willing to work for minimum wage! What do you want us to do, force them into slavery at gunpoint? You left out “_again_” after “_gunpoint_”. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848/6 "2023-12-20T00:50:08Z")
Since the owners have acted … like they’ve acted … you have to wonder how they’ll seek to recoup the $850k they’ve been ordered to pay. I wonder if they can take out a Home Equity loan on their lovely and expansive suburban home. Or will they opt, instead, to increase the rates and fees they charge their clients, and come a bit closer to _actual_ human trafficking next time? Inquiring minds want to know. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cna-hired-as-sole-employee-of-assisted-living-facility/994848/7 "2023-12-20T05:13:09Z")
I did a double take because there’s a nursing home in my city called The Ivy that everyone knows is a bottom of the barrel facility, and one thing that really got me was that at least one resident had a connection to illegal drugs, and was selling them to other residents, and the staff too. (One wonders where THAT money came from!) If I see an obituary and it says the person lived there, I know I can’t be the only person who wonders how many people they majorly pissed off in life to have been dumped off there. And then there was this story from St. Louis, where a home with 170 resident was so abruptly shut down, staff members couldn’t even take patient charts with them! [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/largest-nursing-home-in-st-louis-closes-suddenly-forcing-out-170-residents/ar-AA1lHdpi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W046&cvid=106716c3df2e414587b99f3387d8a00f&ei=48](https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/largest-nursing-home-in-st-louis-closes-suddenly-forcing-out-170-residents/ar-AA1lHdpi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W046&cvid=106716c3df2e414587b99f3387d8a00f&ei=48)