LUFKIN — A couple of Lufkin hospice workers have been fired after allegedly going to a client’s home drunk to pronounce a family member dead. Officials say the nurse who was on call had been out drinking with the office manager. When they got the call, they showed up and were asked to leave. both were arrested that night. Justo Mendez, head of human resources with the hospice company, Harbor House, says, “There was no other option than immediate termination. They made decisions that are contrary to what we are, what Harbor is — particularly the nurse. She made decisions that are contrary to the license that she holds. You cannot be on call and have a drink.” Mendez says Harbor House immediately sent a spiritual counselor to the family’s home and is paying for the funeral expenses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LUFKIN — A couple of Lufkin hospice workers have been fired after allegedly going to a client’s home drunk to pronounce a family member dead. Officials say the nurse who was on call had been out drinking with the office manager. When they got the call, they showed up and were asked to leave. both … Continue reading Lufkin Hospice Workers Arrested, Fired over Alleged Drunkenness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 08:01:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325320,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325319\/revisions\/325320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}