LECLAIRE, Iowa (ICD) - An Iowa nursing home administrator who also worked briefly for the state agency that inspects nursing homes has agreed to surrender her license after being accused of stealing hundreds of patient medications.
According to state records, nursing home administrator Cassandra Strube of LeClaire recently agreed to surrender her license after being criminally convicted of stealing drugs from two of the Iowa care facilities where she worked.
The Iowa Nursing Home Administrators Board alleged that in 2022 Strube was serving as the administrator for Aspire of Pleasant Valley and Atrium Village Nursing Home in Hills when she took the emergency drug kit from the Pleasant Valley home and stole 60 hydrocodone pills.
Four months later, she allegedly stole oxycodone and hydroco