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Most providers administer medications responsibly. But a growing number of providers are diverting drugs for personal use or re-sale.
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| Summary of Diversion Incident | Address of Incident | Facility | Updated | |
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| In July 2018, a technician at Sundance psychiatric hospital in Garland pilfered 16 gallons of codeine cough syrup. | 7000 U.S. 287 Frontage Rd, Arlington, TX 76001 | Sundance Behavioral & Mental Health Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| The Texas state nursing board revoked a nurse’s license after finding she had misappropriated morphine and other drugs from Promise Hospital in northwest Dallas in 2016. She later pleaded guilty to a drug-diversion charge. The hospital did not respond to repeated requests for comment about whether it reported the thefts to the state pharmacy board. | 7955 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75235 | Promise Hospital of Dallas | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A nurse took dozens of drugs, including methadone and hydrocodone, from Parkland Hospital last year, state nursing board records show. Parkland did not report the theft to federal regulators or the state pharmacy board. A Parkland spokeswoman said that’s because initially it was unclear where the stolen drugs came from. The nurse later pleaded guilty | 5200 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75235 | Parkland Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| $4.5 Million Fine for the hospital where two nurses died of overdoses. | 6201 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390 | William P Clements Jr University Hospital (FKA UT Southwestern University Hospital - St Paul) | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Nurse Aaron Bradley Hudson pleaded guilty early this year to fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance. He died by suicide in June at age 39. In January 2016, co-workers suspected a nurse was stealing drugs, according to records from the UT Southwestern police department. Nurse Aaron Bradley Hudson pleaded guilty early this year to fraudulently obtaining | 6201 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390 | William P Clements Jr University Hospital (FKA UT Southwestern University Hospital - St Paul) | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Georgia health system pays $4.1 million to settle allegations they failed to provide effective controls and procedures to protect controlled substances. | 459 GA-119, Springfield, GA 31329 | Effingham Health System | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Cubangbang, a physician, and John F. Gargan, a nurse practitioner, prescribed over 6 million oxycodone pills to individuals they knew did not need the medication for any legitimate medical reason. Cubangbang and John F. Gargan prescribed more than twice as many oxycodone pills that were paid for by Medicare and Medicaid than the next highest | 132-35 41st Rd, Queens, NY 11355 | November 19, 2019 | View full detail | |
| Court documents say Lane resigned from her position at the pharmacy after she was confronted by coworkers. Her boss told police she admitted to the theft right away. Lane’s position as the “pharmacist in charge” included ordering and receiving controlled substances, and the discrepancies began in 2015 under her name. Several pages of the investigation | 117 N McKenzie St, Gillett, WI 54124 | HSHS St. Clare Pharmacy | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A nurse working at a Milford nursing home will serve four years of probation and six months of home confinement for stealing prescription painkillers. Charlotte Demers, 37, of Providence, was sentenced in federal court Tuesday after pleading guilty more than a year ago to four counts of tampering with a consumer product. According to federal | 117 N McKenzie St, Gillett, WI 54124 | Countryside Health Care | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A former paramedic is under arrest after authorities claim he stole drugs from fire trucks and ambulances in five different counties. Indiana State Police say he admitted to stealing fentanyl and replacing it with saline solution. An investigation was launched back in May after authorities with the Greenwood Fire Department found that several vials of | 1718 Pleasant St, Noblesville, IN 46060 | Seals Ambulance Service | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| The case of a Salem nurse, who police say confessed to stealing drugs from a Beaver Township nursing home and forging documents to cover the theft has been turned over to Mahoning County drug court. Heidi Hostettler, 36, pleaded guilty last week to a charge of theft of drugs. The charge was filed by the | 9184 Market St, North Lima, OH 44452 | Caprice Health Care | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Stole $52K worth of painkillers: Hydromorphone et al stolen from Acudose. 10/9/17-11/4/17 | 51 N 39th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 | Penn Presbyterian Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Pharmacy tech arrested for 2nd time in 3 weeks for allegedly stealing pills. A pharmacy technician in Florida was arrested for the second time in three weeks for allegedly stealing bottles of prescription pills after store surveillance video appeared to show her stuffing bottles down her shirt, police said. | 112 E 1st Ave, Pierson, FL 32180 | Pierson Community Pharmacy | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A Billings nurse used different names and faked personal details to obtain narcotics from dozens of medical professionals in six Montana cities, investigators allege. Amanda Poepping, 42, appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court on Thursday on one felony charge of fraudulently obtaining dangerous drugs. Poepping said she was placed on administrative leave at Billings Clinic | 2800 10th Ave N, Billings, MT 59101 | Billings Clinic Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Milwaukee CNA weakened nursing home patients' dosages to get morphine and oxycodone for sale. | 9632 W Appleton Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53225 | Birchwood Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Ohio Doctor Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Distribution of Opioids The owner of a Cincinnati-area medical practice pleaded guilty for illegally distributing opioids. Raymond Noschang, M.D., 59, of Cincinnati, Ohio, pleaded guilty to eight counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone before U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott of the Southern District of Ohio. As part of | 7565 Kenwood Rd # 102, Cincinnati, OH 45236 | November 19, 2019 | View full detail | |
| Marisa Generaux was fired and had her license suspended for seven months, though no sentencing took place, for her being caught on camera stealing a retirement home resident’s morphine more then once. | Trenton, NS, Canada | Unnamed Nursing Home in Trenton | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Jilaine P. Wirts, 58, Washington, turned herself in Monday morning warrant charging her with three felony counts of unlawful possession or use of a legend (prescription) drug. Wirts allegedly admitted she took Gabapentin for her own personal use during a six-month period, often ingesting them on her drive home from work. The case involves Wirts’ | 800 W 9th St, Jasper, IN 47546 | Memorial Hospital And Health Care Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| An employee at a Grand Rapids nursing facility kept more than 1,900 opioid tablets intended for clients for herself over two years, according to a state agency’s investigation. The facility’s clients sometimes went without pain medications as a result, according to the report. The investigation by the Minnesota Department of Health’s Office of Health Facility | 1614 Golf Course Rd, Grand Rapids, MN 55744 | Majestic Pines | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Federal authorities have accused a northern Iowa nurse of stealing prescription drugs and violating federal patient confidentiality laws. U.S. District Court records says the 32-year-old is charged with obtaining and attempting to obtain controlled substances by fraud, deception and subterfuge; criminal violations of privacy law; and aiding and abetting. A criminal complaint says the accused | 1000 4th St SW, Mason City, IA 50401 | Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Mills pleaded guilty May 22 2018 in federal court to acquiring the drug fentanyl by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and tampering with consumer products, according to U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme’s office. Mills was fired from the hospital in March 2017 after a colleague discovered irregularities with the automated secure cabinet in which the hospital stores | 2800 10th Ave N, Billings, MT 59101 | Billings Clinic Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Arkansas nurse with history of substance abuse loses license after pharmacy director found vials of Demerol that were tampered with. | 24 Norris St, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 | Eureka Springs Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A Sarnia nurse who stole fentanyl from operating rooms in the community’s hospital has been handed a conditional sentence including house arrest. In August 2017, Cartwright was a permanent part-time nurse — since his arrest placed on unpaid leave by Bluewater Health — pocketed a box of drugs from the hospital and denied knowing its | 89 Norman St, Sarnia, ON N7T 6S3, Canada | Bluewater Health | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Waseem Shaheen, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the fake hold-up he orchestrated as part of a complex drug-trafficking scheme. | 390 Rideau St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5Y8, Canada | I.D.A. Pharmacy | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Iowa Nurse anesthetist tampered with vials of fentanyl in a hospital’s surgery and birthing centers was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison. | 800 11th St, Charles City, IA 50616 | Floyd County Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
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