May 5, 2017 LIVE OAK, Fla. (WCTV) – The Florida Department of Health is disciplining a local nurse for diverting pain medications from patients and using them herself. Jennifer Jernigan, of Live Oak, was a nurse at Lake City Medical Center. State health department documents say in February, she was caught changing a doctor’s order [...]
Thursday, May 4, 2017 MADISON—A Janesville pharmacist has agreed to a plea agreement in a federal case that charges him with Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Mark Johnson, who ran the former Kealey Pharmacy in downtown Janesville, would get some prison time under the terms of the agreement, according to an online court document for the [...]
DETROIT (WWJ) – A suburban Detroit pharmacist will spend over four years in prison for crimes related to distributing drugs illegally and health care fraud. Nadeem Iqbal, 56, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland to 52 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute prescription pills, health care fraud and money [...]
A former HealthAlliance nurse of 10 years is accused of using various tactics to obtain narcotic medications, including the potent painkillers oxycodone and morphine, from the hospital's pharmacy, according to court documents. Authorities said K. C. Belcher, 39, of 10 Howard Ave. in Westminster, withdrew the medications from a drug dispensing machine at the Leominster [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — An addendum from the Iowa Board of Pharmacy has named the former pharmacy technician who admitted to watering down the opioid prescriptions of hospital patients and stole the powerful painkillers. According to the addendum, Victor Van Cleave diverted approximately 252 vials of Fentanyl and 18 files of hydromorphone from August to [...]
Ruth Williams(Photo: Photo provided) MUNCIE, Ind. – A nurse at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital was arrested Wednesday on allegations she stole and ingested a narcotic pain killer while on duty. It marked the third such arrest of a nurse employed at the Muncie hospital in 47 days. Ruth Evelyn Williams, 52, of the 100 [...]
A 47-year-old man has been convicted of stealing prescription drugs from an NHS Treatment Centre in South Gloucestershire. David Bamford, of Quakers Road, Downend, was found guilty following a trial of the theft of Fentanyl and Diamorphine from Emersons Green NHS Treatment Centre, where he worked as a Lead Operating Department Practitioner – a role [...]
A doctor working at a dermatologist's office in Delray Beach wrote painkiller prescriptions in dead patients' names and then filled them himself, authorities said. Dr. Henry Blady, 62, of Highland Beach was arrested today on charges of drug trafficking, obtaining drugs by fraud and criminal use of dead persons' information. Blady would write oxycodone prescriptions [...]
by: Larry Spruill, Action News JAx Updated: May 2, 2017 - 9:01 AM Five of your local nurses, are in trouble. Action News Jax uncovered those nurses held positions of Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants and Pharmacists. All of them busted in just a week, accused of abusing prescription pills. Three are facing emergency suspensions. Grant [...]