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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release in Harrisburg today from Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday’s office, Sunday announced that a Lawrence County jury convicted a personal care administrator for failing to renew a resident’s medications, which led to a fatal seizure in 2021. Fifty-year-old Kelly R. Gonzales of New Castle was convicted on Tuesday of neglect of a care-dependent person and endangering the welfare of a care-dependent person, both felony charges. Her sentencing is scheduled for May 21st, 2026. Gonzales was the administrator at ARC, which is a personal care home in New Castle, where she was tasked with management of the care of residents. Those duties included making sure that they received their prescribed medication in a timely manner. The victim was a resident that was prescribed anti-seizure medication. According to evidence presented by the Office of Attorney General, Gonzales did not fill the prescription or instruct colleagues to do so, knowing the prescription had run out. Further testimony revealed that two of Gonzales’ colleagues instructed her to take the resident to the emergency room to have his medication filled, but she never did. The resident died at the care home on December 2nd, 2021, after not receiving his medication for over 10 days.