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| Moorehead previously surrendered his nursing license under a 2008 Iowa Board of Nursing agreement after being fired from North Iowa Mercy Health Center in Mason City and Genesis Health Center in Davenport for stealing opioids. Moorehead regained his nursing license in June 2011 and had been working at Franklin General since March 2012 until he | 1000 4th St SW, Mason City, IA 50401 | Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Wettlaufer got fired from the Geraldton District Hospital in 1995 after she was caught high on drugs that she admitted stealing on the overnight shift. The next two decades saw Wettlaufer disciplined multiple times for a litany of medication errors, conflicts with co-workers, poor treatment of nursing home residents and generally shoddy work. She confessed | 500 Hogarth Ave, Geraldton, ON, Canada | Geraldton District Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Charged this week in Delaware Circuit Court 2 with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit, furnishing false or fraudulent information, and failure to make, keep or furnish records. All three counts are Level 6 felonies carrying maximum 30-month prison terms. In an affidavit filed Tuesday, Jack Beckley, a drug diversion investigator with the | 2401 W University Ave, Muncie, IN 47303 | Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| 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 | 3535 Southern Blvd Dayton, OH 45429 | Kettering Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Georgia nurse arrested after submitting a self-report form to the Board of Nursing admitting she diverted morphine, Ativan, and Benadryl from her workplace. | 4700 Waters Ave, Savannah, GA 31404 | Memorial Health University Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| 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. | 509 N Adelaide St, Normal, IL 61761 | Heritage Health | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A former nurse who diluted Valium intended for disabled patients pleaded guilty to two charges of tampering with a consumer product. Kristie Ann Mollohan of Kalamazoo entered the pleas Thursday, Aug. 30, in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. A third tampering charge will be dismissed. The maximum penalty is 10 years in prison. She | 3125 W Main St C, Kalamazoo, MI 49006 | Lakeshore Home Health Care Services | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| 7,200 exposed to hepatitis C after investigation linked the same hepatitis from a patient treated at the hospital where a nurse diverted drugs in 2014. | 4401 Harrison Blvd, Ogden, UT 84403 | McKay - Dee Hospital Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A judge sent a Kentucky nurse to prison for tampering with drugs while working in a Roanoke hospital. The investigation that led to charges against Joseph Edward Howard found vials with diluted fentanyl and glued-on caps at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, a court filing said. Howard, 34, of Catlettsburg, a traveling nurse who had been | 1906 Belleview Ave SE, Roanoke, VA 24014 | Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Federal agents have arrested a Rancho Cordova nurse in what they describe as a scheme to run an online pharmacy that sold more than 20,000 opioid prescription pills to customers nationwide using dark web internet accounts. Carrie Alaine Markis, 46, was arrested Thursday on charges of conspiracy and distribution of fentanyl and was being held | Rancho Cordova California | November 19, 2019 | View full detail | |
| https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best- states/nebraska/articles/2018-04-02/nurse-accused-of-stealing-painkillers-fr om-lincoln-hospital&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzY1NDE1Mjc3MzM1NjU2NTc4MjIaOTE4ZTE0YzY wMTg0MGQyYTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFf6jEwK2tLMk0g8i9dNr5sj74Lpw> Nurse Accused of Stealing Painkillers From Lincoln Hospital She’s accused of stealing several bottles of fentanyl citrate | 2300 S 16th St, Lincoln, NE 68502 | Bryan Medical Center - West | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Seattle cancer treatment center agrees to pay $250,000 after nurse's theft of 96,000 oxycodone pills over the course of 2 years. | 1354 Aloha St, Seattle, WA 98109 | Seattle Cancer Care Alliance | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Hofmann stole hundreds of medication pills, including hydrocodone, oxycodone and other narcotics, from hospitals in Albany, Corvallis, Lincoln City and Salem. | 1046 6th Ave SW, Albany, OR 97321 | Samaritan Albany General Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A nurse, one of three, was charged in Warren County Common Pleas Court with theft of drugs and illegal processing of drug documents. The nurse will face potential sanctions that could include the loss of her nursing license through the Ohio Board of Nursing. She is accused of taking patients’ painkillers and using them herself, | 730 Hillcrest Ave, Carlisle, OH 45005 | Carlisle Manor Health Care | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A nurse, one of three, was charged in Warren County Common Pleas Court with theft of drugs and illegal processing of drug documents. The nurses will face potential sanctions that could include the loss of their nursing licenses through the Ohio Board of Nursing. This nurse is scheduled for arraignment Dec. 7 in Warren County | 115 Oregonia Rd, Lebanon, OH 45036 | Cedarview Rehabilitation & Nursing Home | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A nurse was charged in Warren County Common Pleas Court with theft of drugs and illegal processing of drug documents. She will face potential sanctions that could include the loss of her nursing license through the Ohio Board of Nursing. The nurse is accused of taking patients’ painkillers and using them herself, according to Fornshell. | 325 E Central Ave, Springboro, OH 45066 | Hillspring of Springboro Healthcare Center and Rehabilitation | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| her son overdosed on prescription drugs that she stole. Detectives recovered a bottle of morphine sulfate at the home, which had a torn label, according to the statement. Baker admitted to police she stole the medication from her place of employment, Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, according to the statement. The statement says the morphine was | 1500 N Oakland Ave, Bolivar, MO 65613 | Citizens Memorial Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Mackenzie Coppock, 27, came under suspicion when hospital officials noted discrepancies in the hospital’s drug inventory. Investigators said Coppock admitted taking unnamed controlled substances to “supplement a dependency.” She told investigators she’d been dealing with pain issues as the result of a car crash. Coppock was charged with two counts of obtaining prescription drugs by | 1 Shircliff Way, Jacksonville, FL 32204 | St. Vincent’s Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A former WakeMed Hospital nurse is charged with embezzling oxycodone from the hospital from late January through the beginning of July. The nurse turned herself in Monday at the Wake County Detention Center after hospital police swore out a warrant accusing her of embezzlement of a controlled substance by an employee of a company licensed | 3000 New Bern Ave, Raleigh, NC 27610 | WakeMed Raleigh Campus | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A registered nurse was terminated from Reading Hospital for suspected diversion of Dilaudid, a pain medication, after testing positive for Dilaudid. Subsequently, the same registered nurse faced drug charges after allegedly diverting narcotic pain medication from a second hospital, UPMC Susquehanna Muncy, court documents state. On March 31, 2018, the nurse allegedly pulled Oxycodone from | 371 S 7th Ave, West Reading, PA 19611 | Reading Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A registered nurse faces drug charges after allegedly diverting narcotic pain medication from a local hospital, UPMC Susquehanna Muncy, court documents state. On March 31, 2018, Rothermel allegedly pulled Oxycodone from Pyxis without documenting it as administered to the patient, returned to Pyxis or wasted. On April 12, 2018, Rothermel allegedly asked two co-worker nurses | 215 E Water St, Muncy, PA 17756 | UPMC Susquehanna Muncy | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Karen Feldner, The former nursing director of a surgery center, was sentenced Thursday for stealing nearly 2,000 vials of fentanyl and even prompting a health scare. Feldner admitted taking nearly 2,000 vials of fentanyl, a powerful pain medication, from the Mountain Laurel Surgery Center in Honesdale where she worked. Investigators say Feldner changed how fentanyl | 1860 Fair Ave, Honesdale, PA 18431 | Mountain Laurel Surgery Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| An LPN from Richmond, changed work places five times in a little over two years while under investigation for diversion, a complaint alleges. The Indiana Attorney General charges she was terminated from Arbor Trace nursing home in Richmond after she was suspected of diverting Percocet pain pills. She then became a charge nurse at Brookdale | 3701 Hodgin Rd, Richmond, IN 47374 | Arbor Trace Nursing Home | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| An LPN from Richmond, changed work places five times in a little over two years while under investigation for diversion, a complaint alleges. The Indiana Attorney General charges she was terminated from Arbor Trace nursing home in Richmond after she was suspected of diverting Percocet pain pills. She then became a charge nurse at Brookdale | 498 NW 18th St, Richmond, IN 47374 | Richmond State Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Donna Helm, an LPN from New Castle, was terminated from a nursing home after declining to be interviewed about missing narcotics, after which she was terminated by another nursing home where she allegedly diverted dozens of opioid tablets from patients. Helm’s employment at Stonebrooke Rehabilitation Center (formerly known as American Senior Communities) in New Castle | 990 N 16th St, New Castle, IN 47362 | Stonebrooke Rehabilitation Center (formerly known as American Senior Communities) | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |