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| Mary Panza, a nurse, pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from Ridge View Endoscopy Center in Lone Tree where she had been responsible for tracking the center’s drugs. According to the report, instead of handling the drugs appropriately she emptied wasted medication into vials with other drug labels. Ms. Panza said she diverted drugs from the | 8155 E 1st Ave, Denver, CO 80230 | Denver Endoscopy Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Mary Panza, a nurse, pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from Ridge View Endoscopy Center in Lone Tree where she had been responsible for tracking the center’s drugs. According to the report, instead of handling the drugs appropriately she emptied wasted medication into vials with other drug labels. Ms. Panza said she diverted drugs from the | 10103 Ridgegate Pkwy Suite 312, Lone Tree, CO 80124 | Ridge View Endoscopy Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A hospital nurse tampering with syringes was responsible for an outbreak of Serratia marcescens in five patients in five different hospital wards in Wisconsin. | 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792 | UW Health University Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| a rescue crew had gone to Heritage Rehabilitation and Living Center in Winthrop on Sept. 2, 2016, because of a report of a worker with a medical problem and found Landry slow to answer questions. She told them she had been taking Tylenol with codeine that she had obtained in Canada. Once rescuers administered Narcan, | 457 Old Lewiston Rd, Winthrop, ME 04364 | Heritage Rehabilitation and Living Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Rachael Hird was raiding the drug cupboard on two nursing wards. The National Health Service (NHS) trust reported the missing medication to police, who searched Hird’s home and found the UV-marked codeine in her make-up bag. A disciplinary panel ruled that she had repeatedly taken codeine from the hospital between July and September 2017. A | North Rd, Durham DH1 5TW, United Kingdom | University Hospital of North Durham | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In 2015, a nurse at Children’s Medical Center Dallas stole 123 syringes of morphine, vials containing more than a half-gallon of fentanyl, and a variety of other drugs. | 1935 Medical District Dr, Dallas, TX 75235 | UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Clements Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In 2017, two nurses at Medical City Plano pocketed more than a quart of fentanyl as well as sedatives and other painkillers. | 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390 | UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Clements 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Two nurses at a nursing home in Florida arrested after allegedly stealing drugs intended for ailing elderly patients and swapped them with Tylenol. | 2180 Hypoluxo Rd, Lantana, FL 33462 | Hamlin Place of Boynton Beach | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| James Rellihan, 31, is accused of going to the Bloomington Rehabilitation and Health Care Center on his day off, Feb. 24, where he took three fentanyl patches off a terminally ill man. He allegedly told the patient, “It will be OK,” as he removed the patches. | 120 E Miller Dr, Bloomington, IN 47401 | Bloomington Rehabilitation and Health Care Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| For three months, he’d been secretly diverting morphine and Dilaudid, two powerful opioid painkillers, from the hospital’s automated drug dispensers and replacing them with saline solution, to be dispensed to patients. Court testimony revealed that he would use his personal password to gain access to the machine, take the drugs, and replace them with saline | 164 High St, Greenfield, MA 01301 | Baystate Franklin Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| she wrote prescriptions for oxycodone for six patients — but kept the pills for herself. Unbeknownst to six patients, she wrote a total of 32 prescriptions for oxycodone in their names in July through October and obtained 896 pills — all of which she kept for herself. | 1441 E Fletcher Ave, Tampa, FL 33612 | Massassa Medical House Calls | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |