In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Timothy Abbott, a licensed podiatrist with the Tennessee Department of Health, Board of Examiners, was accused of prescribing opioids including hydrocodone for no legitimate medical reason between January 2015 and October 19, 2018. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155096/download
In the Western District of Tennessee, Dr. Thomas Ballard III, is accused of issuing prescriptions for opioids including oxycodone, morphine and hydrocodone along with benzodiazepines, which are dangerous to take at the same time as opioids, at Ballard Clinic-Family Practice in Jackson outside the usual scope of professional practice and with no legitimate reason. He's
In the Western District of Tennessee, Britney Petway, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Charles Alston, are accused together in an indictment. It claims that Petway issued prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs at Superior Health and Wellness Clinic LLC, in Jackson, without a medical need and that Alston was the supervising doctor there while
In the Western District of Tennessee, Britney Petway, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Charles Alston, are accused together in an indictment. It claims that Petway issued prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs at Superior Health and Wellness Clinic LLC, in Jackson, without a medical need and that Alston was the supervising doctor there while
Weberg, a former nurse at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, admitted to diverting fentanyl and hydromorphone, narcotic pain medications. Police also said that two patients who were under her care in the emergency department in December 2017 were later admitted to the hospital and tested positive for hepatitis C. On September 1 2023,
Officials with the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office said that office is considering charges against a nurse, Samantha Moyer, after Alan King, a patient's husband, accused Moyer of stealing medication from his wife. Alan King, whose wife had surgery at Kettering Medical Center for a life-threatening illness, said she was in unnecessary agony in the days
Georgia nurse arrested after submitting a self-report form to the Board of Nursing admitting she diverted morphine, Ativan, and Benadryl from her workplace.
See description for McKay-Dee Hospital. Health officials believe Neilson may have exposed as many as 7,200 patients to the hepatitis C genotype B strain. Of those patients, roughly 4,800 were treated at Ogden's McKay-Dee Hospital — where Neilson worked from June 2013 to November 2014 — and 2,369 were at Davis Hospital and Medical Center,
12,000 exposed to Hepatitis C in seven states after stealing fentanyl and refilling syringes with saline to be later injected into patients.
Jmes Rellihan: On Feb. 26, Rellihan showed up at the Normal nursing home where he had previously worked. He went to a patient’s room where he removed a fentanyl patch from a man with dementia, according to the charges.