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DIRECT EXAMINATION OF DEBORAH POLISANO BY FG
In March of 2008 she was a nurse and director for Gentiva in Winter Park. She was director of clinical management, responsible for clinical, field and supervisor staff. She ran the office. She supervised 20 to 25 office people.
She knows CA. She was her supervisor in 2008. There were clinical teams and she was responsible for oversight of that, their performance.
CA's job was a manager of clinical practice. She had a team of field staff who worked under her, a census of patients, and she was responsible for the clinical aspects. It was an office job. She was not required to leave the office to perform the job. She had a cubicle. She was salaried, didn't punch a clock. They logged in and logged out. Typically, lunch was a half an hour to an hour. If a salaried employee needed to run out to the store, they wouldn't necessarily need to log out of the computer. The computer would lock itself.
When she came to work, she would log on with her user name and personal password. Each employee would log on when they got to work because it would be hard to do any work if you didn't.
Automatically log out - the computer would log out after 15 minutes of inactivity.
CA was a capable employee who worked hard. She did not take 2-3 hour lunches. If any employee was gone for any extended period of time while she was supervising them, she would have to do their job.
Could anyone use another's work station if they wanted to. They could use the computer if it wasn't locked to someone else's user ID. It was important for record purposes that the computer reflect who was putting in the info. It is against policy to use someone else's account. It was a HIPPA compliance issue.
During March of 2008 CA did not have the capability to work from home. She could not log into her Gentiva account from a laptop or via a desk top or VPN account.
Theoretically, she could fix someone's time card. She has never done that and did not do it for CA.
State's 318 - Time Card History report of CA - published. She has seen this before.
3/14 - PTO - paid time off - a paid day off 8:00 to 16:00 - shows 8 hours account for the time off.
3/17 - she arrived at 8:00 (when she actually logged on to computer) then signing off at 18:00 for a total of 10 hours.
3/21 - she had a total of 9.50 hours.
The final time card was approved by her. It is computerized and comes to her on a Tuesday morning. She checks everyone's time for accuracy. If anything is missing, there is a little red icon and a place to send an email. She then approves them and they go directly to payroll.
Salaried means you can be expected to occasionally work more than 40 hours a week. They did not necessarily get comp time. There was never an occasion for CA to be at home, yet actually logged in as working. That would be illegal to do.
She believes there is a Bank of America on Aloma - not far from the office - the next street over and down a few blocks.
CROSS EXAMINATION BY JB
Employees can run errands in the middle of the day if they need to.
Were you shown a Bank of America receipt by CA?
OBJECTION - OVERRULED
No.
Did they show you anything from Bank of America?
OBJECTION - OVERRULED
No.
If someone had to go to the dentist or doctor,
On July 15, 2008 CA had to go to the tow yard and had to leave work in the middle of the day. She doesn't know how long she was gone.
OBJECTION - beyond scope - OVERRULED
She was possibly gone an hour and a half or two hours. It was late afternoon.
She has not reviewed her computer records for that date. She was working on her computer when she left and she worked on it when she came back.
There was quite a bit of commotion when CA came back. She then went back to her computer. She agreed she had to force CA to leave and go home and take care of her persona problems. She wanted to stay.
REDIRECT EXAM BY FG
If she needed to do another employee's work, she would do it under her password.
Witness excused at 2:50