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Hundreds of patient visits, calls subject of falsified records: regulator
Published Jun 07, 2026 • Last updated 5 days ago • 2 minute read
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A New Brunswick nurse has been accused of professional misconduct for allegedly falsifying records and receiving payment for ‘numerous’ patient visits and calls she didn’t make over the course of a year. UNSPLASHArticle content
A New Brunswick nurse has been accused of professional misconduct for allegedly falsifying records and receiving payment for “numerous” patient visits and calls she didn’t make over the course of a year.
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Ashli O’Leary will now face a disciplinary hearing before the College of Nursing of New Brunswick. She stands accused of breaching three provincial standards related to the practice of nursing, as well as the Canadian Nurses Association’s 2017 Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses.
According to a statement of allegations, O’Leary was working as a registered nurse for a “program” – whose identity is redacted in documents prepared by the nursing regulator – at the time of her alleged professional misconduct between June 1, 2023 and June 3, 2024.
During that year, O’Leary allegedly falsified records related to 426 in-home patient visits and 111 patient telephone calls.
In some cases, O’Leary is accused of documenting “numerous” in-home patient visits and patient phone calls that she didn’t make at all. In other cases, she allegedly made patient calls but documented instead that she had done in-home patient visits.
“By falsifying records relating to her nursing practice and receiving and accepting payment from the program for nursing services which she knew she did not provide, Ms. O’Leary engaged in fraudulent, dishonest and unethical behaviour,” reads the statement of allegations.
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None of the allegations have yet to be tested before the nursing regulator’s disciplinary committee.
According to her LinkedIn profile, O’Leary lists “Medavie Health Services” as her employer during the period where she’s alleged to have committed professional misconduct.
Medavie Health Services New Brunswick is contracted to manage the province’s Extra-Mural Program, which provides home health services to New Brunswickers. That contract is with EM/ANB Inc., a Part III entity funded by the Department of Health.
All Extra-Mural health-care professionals are salaried employees paid by EM/ANB Inc. and do not bill the Department of Health directly, according to department spokesperson Morgan Bell.
Brunswick News asked both Medavie and the province’s health department about the measures in place to ensure that Extra-Mural workers are performing their work as documented and whether there had been any additional measures put in place in wake of the allegations against O’Leary.
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The health department referred those questions to Medavie, “which is responsible for the operations and staffing of its services.”
“We do not comment on current or former employees, employment matters, or personal information relating to identifiable individuals,” Medavie Health Services spokesperson Christianna Williston said in an email.
Efforts by Brunswick News to reach O’Leary over the course of two days were unsuccessful. Messages left for her through her LinkedIn and Facebook accounts were not returned.
According to her LinkedIn profile, O’Leary stopped working as a registered nurse for Medavie in September 2024.
A current employer isn’t listed for O’Leary on the nursing regulator’s online public directory, but her nursing registration was renewed in December 2025 and is set to expire in November 2026, according to the website.
In the statement of allegations, O’Leary is accused of committing acts of professional misconduct as defined in the province’s Nurses Act by breaching the standards of practice for registered nurses, the standards for documentation, and the standards for nurse-client relationship.
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