EAST ST. LOUIS • A paramedic had been charged in federal court here with 37 felonies after being accused of stealing the painkillers Fentanyl and morphine from Metro East ambulance inventories and hiding it with falsified records. Jason Laut, a former paramedic, supervisor and dispatch manager with Medstar Ambulance Co. altered “numerous” reports and logs to [...]
by: Michael Yoshida, Action News Jax Updated: Jan 23, 2017 - 11:39 PM A local nurse is accused of stealing from veterans. Action News Jax has been looking into this case for several weeks. We got our hands on part of the 89-page investigation into her actions. The pages detail how nurse Michelle Lynn Harris [...]
NASHVILLE, TN – (WJHL) – The chairman of Tennessee’s Senate Health and Welfare Committee says he and his staff are putting the finishing touches on a bill that would allow for the immediate suspensions of nursing licenses for nurses who fail drug tests and don’t have prescriptions for the drugs in question. Sen. Crowe says [...]
Three Lansing-area residents, including a former police officer, face felony Medicaid fraud and related drug charges in a prescription medication ring, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced today.(Photo: Getty Images) Three people are facing fraud charges after a local pharmacist alerted St. Clair County law enforcement of two suspicious prescriptions. According to the county sheriff department, [...]
DANVILLE —Two nurses were admitted to Montour County’s Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program for refusal to keep required records. Mary Beth Strohl, 35, of Pottsville, and Maribel Cronin, 50, of Catawissa, were admitted Wednesday to the program for one year. President Judge Thomas James Jr. also ordered Strohl and Cronin to complete 20 hours of community service. [...]
A woman who took advantage of her job as a nurse at Ecker Plastic Surgery Center to fraudulently write and fill over 100 prescriptions for painkillers pleaded guilty in Lycoming County Court Friday. Gina Campana, 60, of 1200 Cherry St., began forging Dr. Herbert A. Ecker Jr.’s signature on prescription slips beginning five months after [...]
VERNON — A former supervisor in the pharmacy at UConn's Student Health Services infirmary pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree larceny and illegal distribution of narcotics and faces up to two years in prison. UConn police arrested Michael Olzinksi, 46, of Coventry in April 2016 following an investigation that was prompted by UConn's auditors. The auditors [...]
Huntington, WV is going after a doctor and three pharmaceutical companies it holds responsible for the city's opioid epidemic. The city filed suit in Cabell Circuit Court Jan. 19 against Dr. Gregory Donald Chaney, doing business as Tri-State Medical Center; AmerisourceBergen Drug Co.; Ohio-based Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp. “The citizens in our city, [...]
PICKERING, Ont. — Two people are facing charges after allegedly fraudulent prescriptions were used to obtain fentanyl from a pharmacy east of Toronto. Durham regional police say a man went to a Pickering, Ont., pharmacy last Sunday with a prescription for 30 fentanyl patches, and paid for 10 patches. The pharmacy alerted police and when [...]
Cameras, access control technology and proper policies and procedures will help to ensure the controlled substances at your hospital stay secure. Many hospital pharmacies are now visually documenting all drug dispensing to verify who is picking up specific medications and to which patients they are being administered. By Paul Baratta · January 19, 2017 [...]