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A woman who treated thousands of patients at Florida Hospital under the guise of a registered nurse was arrested on multiple charges, authorities said.
Autumn Bardisa, 29, was arrested without a license and without misuse of seven medical professionals and seven months of personal identification information, following a seven-month investigation, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
Investigators said they were hired by AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway in July 2023.
When applying for the job, Bardisa showed that she was a “education number one” registered nurse. That means they completed the necessary schooling but did not pass the national exam to obtain their license, officials said.
Autumn Bardisa. (Flaggler County Sheriff’s Office)
During the employment process, authorities said that Bardisa had passed the exam to the hospital and provided a license number that matches her name but has a different last name.
Bardisa said she recently got married and had a new surname, and the hospital asked her to provide her with a marriage license, but she never did, officials said.
When Bardisa was offered a promotion this January, fellow employees checked the status of her license and discovered that her certified nursing assistant license had expired.
Employees reported the information to managers and AdventHealth discovered that Bardisa never provided a marriage license.
On January 22nd, Bardisa was fired and the sheriff’s office began an investigation.
Investigators found that the license number she provided belonged to another nurse named Autumn, who was also employed by AdventHealth and attended school with Bardisa, officials said.
The detective also determined that Bardisa participated in providing medical services to 4,486 people from June 2024 to January 2025, despite not holding a valid nursing license.
“This is one of the most disturbing medical fraud cases we have ever investigated,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staley said in a statement Wednesday. “This woman could risk thousands of lives by pretending she is not there and violating the trust of patients, their families, events, and the entire medical community.”
Bardisa was booked to prison and held on a $70,000 bond, officials said.
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