Two hospital workers have been charged in connection with the death of a man left in a scalding hot bath, investigators said.

The West Virginia state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has filed criminal charges against two members of a hospital nursing staff over the death of a non-verbal patient a year ago. Kylah Beard and Delilah Clayburn-Hill have been charged with neglect of an incapacitated adult resulting in death,

Kylah Beard, a certified nursing assistant, and Delilah Clayburn-Hill, a registered nurse, have each been charged with felony neglect of an incapacitated adult by a caregiver resulting in the incapacitated adult’s death.

A nurse and nursing assistant have been charged in relation to an incident last year at Hopemont Hospital in Preston County where a nonverbal patient was left in scalding water and sustained burns that eventually led to his death.

Two local nurses have been criminally charged after a non-verbal patient died due to injuries sustained from a ‘scalding hot’ bath.

Registered nurse Delilah Clyburn-Hill and certified nursing assistant Kylah Beard have been charged with felony neglect of an incapacitated adult by a caregiver.

Two staff members at a northern West Virginia long-term care facility have been charged in the death of a patient who was left in a scalding hot bathtub a year ago, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday.