Felicia Armstrong filed a lawsuit, claiming Jacob Cuellar, a former Laurel Ridge CEO, groped her during a staff meeting in 2024. Armstrong says the company did nothing to handle her complaints about it. Laurel Ridge denies the allegations.
A state investigation recently found a list of violations at Laurel Ridge Treatment Center, which it said put patients in immediate danger. The center says, since then, it has taken corrective action.
The former CEO of a San Antonio mental health center was arrested Monday in North Carolina on child sex charges. Some of the alleged crimes date back more than two decades.
Jacob Cuellar, 45, was denied a medical license in North Carolina because of a prior conviction related to pornography.
:strip_exif(true):strip_icc(true):no_upscale(true):quality(65)/d1vhqlrjc8h82r.cloudfront.net/10-27-2021/t_0e9e8ac550ca468ea9fce152648845cd_name_image.jpg)
Laurel Ridge Treatment Center is dealing with a surge of admissions and is attributing the increase in mental health needs in the community to the COVID-19 pandemic.