Carlyle Senior Care of Aiken: Resident Funds Stolen - SC
The resident, identified in inspection records only as R2, is described as a man who is particular about his belongings and insists on keeping them close, especially his wallet. When the facility helped him open a bank account in December 2024 as part of his Medicaid spend-down process, he was, according to the social worker who assisted him, very pleased to receive both the debit card and the wallet. For safekeeping, the social worker stored the wallet, the debit card, his identification, and related receipts inside a legal-size envelope in the bottom drawer of her desk.
The drawer was never locked.
The office was shared with the admissions coordinator and the administrator.
On March 30, 2025, someone used R2's debit card at CVS, KJ's Grocery Store, Dollar General, and a local hair store. The total came to roughly $300. R2 did not discover the wallet was missing until four days later, on April 3, when he came to the social worker's office so she could retrieve his card to pay his monthly room charge. She opened the drawer. The wallet was gone. The temporary debit card was still there, loose at the bottom of the drawer, outside the envelope.
The social worker contacted the bank, which confirmed the unauthorized purchases from March 30 and cancelled the card. All charges were eventually reversed, and credits were posted to R2's account on April 9. She also called KJ's Grocery and obtained the receipt number for the transaction. Police were contacted and received the transaction records.
Surveillance footage from KJ's showed two men. The responding officer described them as two Black males, one younger and taller, wearing khaki pants and a nice watch, the other with dreadlocks. The social worker reviewed the facility's staffing records for March 30 and spent several weeks trying to reach the officer for a follow-up. He did not reconnect with her until the end of April or the beginning of May.
When he did, he showed her footage from Dollar General. She identified one of the two men in the video as a housekeeper and laundry aide employed at the facility.
The social worker told inspectors during an interview on August 12 that she checked her drawer daily to confirm the envelope was still present, but she did not regularly verify what was inside it. She said she did not expect anyone to open the drawer and take a resident's belongings.
The administrator said she first learned of the incident when it was time to collect R2's room payment and she watched the social worker search her desk without finding the wallet. She noted that R2 had refused, before the theft, to store his wallet in the facility safe.
R2 himself, when interviewed on August 12, said he had two or three debit cards and could not recall anyone using his cards without his permission.
The social worker told inspectors he was initially upset but has since returned to his baseline, and she does not believe he fully understood the process involved in recovering the funds.
Federal inspectors cited the facility under F0602, which covers misappropriation of resident property, and assessed the violation at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting few residents. The bank reversed the charges. The credits posted. The case was referred to police.
Whether the housekeeper identified in the Dollar General footage was ever formally charged is not reflected in the inspection record. The wallet was never found.
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Carlyle Senior Care of Aiken in Aiken, SC was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 12, 2025.
The office was shared with the admissions coordinator and the administrator.
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