A South Florida nurse claimed 3 visits to an already dead patient, state says
A licensed practical nurse based in Broward County gave up her license after a state complaint claimed she falsely documented monthly visits with a patient who was already dead.
The patient, the Florida Department of Health complaint said, died before those three visits.
Demetria Kemmerlin, whose official addresses are in Miramar and Tamarac, voluntarily relinquished the license she’d held since May 3, 2022. The final order making this official posted last Tuesday.
According to the administrative complaint, while working as a nurse at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health locations in Stuart, Kemmerlin “provided nursing care and/or conducted telephonic nursing visits with Patient D.C.”
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D.C. died on Feb. 20, 2024.
But on March 7, 2024, the complaint said, Kemmerlin “submitted a nursing progress note that documented that (she) conducted a telephonic nursing visit with D.C. lasting approximately 20 minutes.”
The complaint said Kemmerlin submitted another nursing progress note on April 16, 2024, that claimed the same 20-minute telephone visit with D.C., and replicated the note again on May 9, 2024.
Kemmerlin, the complaint charged, “engaged in unprofessional conduct by falsifying or altering Patient D.C.’s nursing progress records when she documented that she had conducted telephonic visits on or about March 7, April 16, and May 9, 2024.”
This story was originally published April 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM.
