A former Ventura hospital worker was ordered to pay more than $26,000 in restitution and sentenced to 60 days in jail for workers’ compensation insurance fraud.

Michelle Cordero, 50, formerly of Ventura but now living in Nocona, Texas, pleaded guilty to one felony count of insurance fraud in January, according to court records. She was also sentenced to five years of supervised probation.

Prosecutors said Cordero filed a workers’ compensation claim in July 2015 for a right shoulder injury she said happened while moving a shelf while working at Community Memorial Hospital. In her report, Cordero also denied having prior shoulder injuries and went to only one doctor.

A subsequent investigation revealed that not only had she been seeing multiple doctors, but also that she had reported that she had just injured her right shoulder while moving boxes at her residence.

Cordero, a phlebotomist, filed a second claim alleging that she had contracted meningitis from a patient at Community Memorial Hospital. Under oath, she denied she had been in contact with anyone who had meningitis.

An investigation would later reveal that her live-in boyfriend had recently been sick with meningitis and that she intentionally concealed the information from the insurer.

As part of her sentence, Cordero must pay $26,089.76 in restitution to Sedgewick Claims Management Services Inc.,

This case was the result of an investigation by the California Department oflnsurance’s Valencia Fraud Division and the District Attorney’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud Unit.