MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 44-year-old woman from northwest Miami-Dade was arrested Tuesday on accusations that she was running an unlicensed cosmetic post-operative recovery home.
According to her arrest report, Miami-Dade police responded Tuesday to a home, located at 1790 NW 109th St., that was operating as Wow Recovery.
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Police said Yudania Reinoso-Gomez, who is a Cuban national, was also discovered to be “illegally dumping human medical waste of a hazardous and biologically dangerous nature.”
According to the report, police inspected the trash bins outside the home and found large amounts of bandages, adult diapers, gloves, medical absorbent pads, medical gowns and bed pads in regular white trash bags.
Police said the items were saturated with human fecal matter, blood and urine, “thereby creating a credible and actual biological hazard to the well-being and safety of the public.”
Police said Reinoso-Gomez did not put warning labels or signs on the regular trash bins indicating that medical waste was within the containers.
Inside the home, officers found five women who were in different stages of post-operative recovery, authorities said.
Police said three employees inside the home were questioned and said they provided various assistance to the patients, including by helping them bathe, dress and eat, as well as provided transportation services to them.
According to the report, the patients told the officers they were charged between $200 and $300 a night at the facility.
Reinoso-Gomez was arrested on charges of operating an assisted living facility without a license, violating Florida’s litter law, hazardous waste violation, nuisances injurious to health and failure to track biomedical waste.