According to the lowell sun,nursing students attending the Holden Medical Institute are waiting for answers after the New Hampshire Board of Nursing abruptly closed the doors to the facility on Monday.
Darlene LaDuke, a single mother from Dracut, just paid her third-semester tuition bill. She was in class taking an exam when word came that the school was closing. She has looked into several other schools and discovered that many of her credits from Holden are not transferable.
“I have no idea what I’m going to do now. Everything goes down the tubes now,” LaDuke said. “I want to be a nurse. I want to help people. I have close to $20,000 invested in this.”
Wilfred Saroni, a Dracut resident who owns the institute as well as several other health-care businesses, came under scrutiny in September 2007 when employees at the Lowell-based Holden Homecare Services complained they were not getting paid, getting paid late or receiving checks that bounced.
Similar complaints began coming into the state Board of Nursing last October, according to Margaret Walker, the board’s executive director. The board requested an audit of the school’s financial statements. Saroni did not comply.
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