State investigating home health care company [Video]

GOLDEN, Colo. — The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has opened an investigation into Arvada-based Lark Home Care, a company that allegedly paid a man and his girlfriend who have since been arrested on charges related to the death of the man’s mother. 

Brian Seitz, 36, and his girlfriend, Laura Prats, 53, are expected to be charged with crimes against an at-risk adult resulting in death after first responders found Seitz’s mother Sheryl, 58, on an air mattress in the garage of an Airbnb in Arvada this week with maggots covering her body. Medical professionals who evaluated Seitz at the hospital before her death learned she had multiple hip fractures, a partially dislocated wrist and had sepsis, according to an affidavit from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.  

The affidavit says Brian Seitz and Prats were paid state funds for providing Seitz’s mother with 83 hours …