An Iowa woman who alleges she was fired for blowing the whistle on poor resident care at a nursing home is suing the facility for wrongful discharge.

Denise Brooks of Madison County is suing Windsor Manor, an Indianola nursing home, in Warren County District Court.

The facility, which has a memory care unit and is certified as a dementia-specific assisted living program, hired Brooks as a resident assistant in October 2018. Twelve months later, Brooks was allegedly attending a staff meeting and mentioned that she had noticed not all of the activities prescribed for residents – which included exercise, movie nights, coloring, puzzles, etc. — were being offered, despite workers signing documents indicating the activities had been completed.

During the meeting, the home’s activities director admitted she did not have the time to do all the assigned activities with the residents, at which point the conversation was halted. Shortly after the meeting, Brooks was allegedly written up for harassing the activities director in the meeting.

The lawsuit suit claims one of Brooks’ other concerns was that the executive director and the director of nursing at that time were falsifying documents stating that residents were being provided meals and showers when they were not. Those documents were then sent into Medicaid for reimbursement of services and to the state of Iowa for verification of eligibility to remain certified as an assisted living center. Medicaid and others then paid the...

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