21-03-2025
A Nevada mother came to Miami for plastic surgery. She died in the recovery house
A Las Vegas woman who came to Miami with her sister for plastic surgery died in a Miami house being used as a recovery center.
Ahmonique Miller was 28. She leaves behind a 1-year-old daughter, a mother, a brother and sister Kiera Barnes, who said she was in the recovery house with Miller at the time of the death.
Miami police confirmed homicide detectives are investigating how Miller died at 10:26 p.m. March 7 at 3637 SW Fourth St.
In a video, Barnes said Keyla Oliver, who runs Keyla's Recovery House at that address, is responsible for what happened.
Oliver answered the door at 3637 SW Fourth St., then referred all Miami Herald questions to attorney Bob Pardo.
Asked about the customers at Keyla's Recovery House, license and medical professionals employed, Pardo said, 'It would be improper for us to comment at this time; our condolences to the family of the deceased.'
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Surviving surgery, but not the recovery
Barnes said in a video posted on Instagram account @couturebodyculture and reposted by @surgery411 that she and Miller came to Miami for plastic surgery procedures at Avana Plastic Surgery, 8700 W. Flagler St. Miller's surgeon was Dr. Algird Mameniskis.
Like other plastic surgery centers, Avana is licensed as an office surgery center, not a hospital. By Florida administrative code, patients have to be discharged within 24 hours of showing up for surgery. Most patients are in and out the same day, then spend their post-surgery days at recovery houses, which are usually run out of rented houses.
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There's no unique license for recovery centers, although their services — including personal care such as bathing and dressing, and helping give prescribed medication — aligns with being an assisted living facility. 'Operating an assisted living facility without a license' is a common charge when arrests are made at recovery houses in Miami-Dade.
Among recovery houses, there's great variance in luxuriousness and, more importantly, level of actual care — number of guests accepted at any given time, ratio of licensed medical professionals to recovering patients and number of licensed medical professionals present.
In the Instagram video, Barnes said she and Miller chose Keyla's Recovery House.
A search of Florida Department of Health records shows no medical professional license for Keyla Oliver. There's also no state corporate or assisted living facility registration for Keyla's Recovery House, although state corporate records show Keyla Oliver runs Keyla's Services at 3637 SW Fourth St. and had previously done so at 3227 SW 26th St., which Keyla's Recovery House's Facebook page lists as its previous address.
The other unit at the house, 3639 SW Fourth St., is on state corporate records as the address of Keyla Services' manager, Oliver.
Barnes' attorney, Hollywood's Frantz 'Jahra' McLawrence, said there were five people at the recovery center the night of March 7: Miller, Barnes, Oliver, Oliver's son and a staffer.
Barnes said after Mameniskis learned of Miller's death, he sent Barnes to another recovery center.
'I did not stay there the night my sister died,' Barnes said. 'I didn't feel safe.'
