A former Council Bluffs nurse faces felony charges. Pottawattamie County prosecutors said she stole nearly 2,000 pain pills from a Council Bluffs nursing home. It’s red flags from the pharmacist and a billing discrepancy that brought the thefts to light. Now Bethany Lutheran home is changing policies, so it doesn't happen again. And the nurse
The woman, identified as Christina Ann Santos, 29, is being charged with multiple felonies. She admitted to investigators she stole more than 1,600 pills of various types of painkillers from her employer, an affidavit shows. According to an arrest affidavit, Santos was a staff nurse at Healthsouth Rehabilitation Institute of San Antonio where another nurse
Pharmacy supervisor is suspected of stealing more than 24,000 painkillers and 25 vials of testosterone over five years.
Over the course of five years, two pharmacy technicians stole more than 2 million doses of prescription drugs from the hospital where they worked.
Kim Marie Lesher, a licensed practical nurse, has been sentenced to a mix of jail time, house arrest and probation for stealing patient prescription pain medications from the elderly at an area nursing home. Lesher was given a 30-month intermediate punishment sentence. The sentence requires Lesher to spend the first four months in county jail
Couple charged in theft of marijuana from lab in Framingham, MA
Michigan Anesthesiologist discovered by nurse in hospital bathroom after overdosing on stolen fentanyl.
Two workers who were diverting medications overdosed on the same day. One died. For details see https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2014/04/police_u-m_doctor_overdosed_on.html DelVecchio was found dead at the Neuroscience Hospital, 1500 East Medical Center Drive. She, too, was locked in a bathroom with hospital-issued sedation medication and a syringe. An autopsy report obtained by The Ann Arbor News revealed Delvecchio
Thomas was employed as a nurse practitioner by a medical facility with multiple facilities in Idaho. Each facility had a locked cabinet where controlled substances, including painkillers, were kept. Thomas did not have access to the locked cabinets. On at least seven occasions, however, Thomas accessed the cabinets at different facilities, and took bottles of
Record high fine, to date. Two nurses stole nearly 16,000 pills, mostly oxycodone, from automated dispensing machines. Another pediatric nurse injected himself with Dilaudid while at work. And other findings, e.g., a doctor prescribing CS for patients without seeing them, staff not securing CS, etc. DEA’s ensuing audit of MGH’s controlled substances revealed pill count