The state of Iowa has suspended the license of a nursing home worker who was criminally charged with forging a physician’s signature on records.
Licensed practical nurse Jamie Jorgensen, 38, of Ankeny, was charged in November with two counts of forgery. At the time, Jorgensen listed her place of employment as “nursing home.” Police records indicate the alleged forgery took place at 21st Century Rehab in Altoona and involved Jorgensen submitting “doctor notes to her employer via e-mail.”
Prosecutors later amended the charges against Jorgensen to a single count of identity theft. Last week, Jorgensen pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined $855 and received a deferred judgment.
Jorgensen said Friday she’s never heard of 21st Century Rehab and declined to identify the care facility where she worked at the time or her arrest. She said the case had nothing to do with her employment and said the deferred judgment in the case indicates the charges against her were not proven.
Court records show that while that case was still pending, Jorgensen was charged with domestic abuse assault resulting in injury. According to police, she physically struck an individual who recorded the incident on his phone.
Jorgensen has pleaded not guilty and a trial is scheduled for March 19, 2026.
The Iowa Board of Nursing recently entered into an agreement that calls for Jorgensen to refrain from practicing as a nurse until further order by the board. In return, the board has agreed not to pursue disciplinary action against Jorgensen while the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing investigates the two criminal matters.
As part of the agreement, Jorgensen’s license status has been changed to “suspended.”
Other Iowa nurses recently sanctioned by the board include:
— Kodjo Bossou of Ottumwa, who is currently charged by the board with fraud in procuring a license and with professional incompetence. The board has not disclosed any information as to what gave rise to the charges, but information in an online newsletter published by the Good Samaritan nursing home in Ottumwa indicates Bossou began working at the facility in 2015 and was still working there in 2019, and possibly later. The newsletter indicates Bossou came to America from West Africa in 2008 and began working in meatpacking plants. He later received some form of college degree to enter the medical field, the newsletter states, and while working for Good Samaritan used his salary there to build and support a school for children in his home country of Togo.
— LaMonica Antoinette Hodges, who is listed by the board as being from both Iowa and Arizona. The board alleges that Hodges, who has a nursing license in Arizona, submitted an application for an Iowa license in September 2025. The board alleges that Hodges has faced licensing sanctions in at least five states for regulatory violations. In response to the board’s preliminary decision to deny her an Iowa license, Hodges has requested a hearing on the matter that is now scheduled for July 16, 2026.
According to Arizona state regulators, licensing officials there received a complaint in 2021 alleging that Hodges, while working as a family nurse practitioner in Georgia, knowingly ordered unnecessary medical equipment for various individuals.
In 2022, Arizona regulators received a complaint that Hodges, while working at ADHD Online, a telehealth company based in Michigan, provided substandard and inadequate care for a patient by overprescribing of the controlled substance Adderall, despite multiple reports of the patient being an addict.
Later in 2022, it was alleged that Hodges, while still working for ADHD Online, used patients’ personal, protected health information to solicit those patients’ enrollment in her own personally owned virtual practice called the Family Care Clinic.
Hodges was fined $3,500 by the Arizona State Board of Nursing but retained her license.
