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A Good Shepherd nurse accused of taking patients’ pain medication resigned rather than submit to a drug test when confronted, investigators allege.

Jennifer Quimby, of the 100 block of Grandview Drive in Palmer Township, was one of 10 people prosecutors announced on Friday would face charges stemming from separate prescription fraud investigations.

Quimby worked as a registered nurse at the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation specialty hospital in Bethlehem, and is accused of filling out pain medication prescriptions for patients, but not administering the drugs.

Quimby was arrested Tuesday and arraigned on charges of acquiring or obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge; possession of a controlled substance; and furnishing false or fraudulent information on legally required reports or documents.

Quimby, 47, is free on $25,000 unsecured bail.

Prosecutors allege when confronted with the medication thefts in March 2016, Quimby refused to submit to a drug test and resigned.

“It is accurate that part of their evidence is that a private citizen refused to give a urine test to their employer. If that’s evidence of a crime, I will eat my hat,” said Quimby’s attorney, Gavin Holihan.

Asked if Quimby denied the allegations she stole medication, Holihan answered, “Of course.”

Good Shepherd spokeswoman Lynn Gerlach said Quimby “is no longer employed by our organization, and we’re directing all questions to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office.”

An agent with the state Attorney General’s office said the office was contacted in June 2016 by the hospital at 2524 Schoenersville Road in Bethlehem, for a possible drug diversion case.

Drug diversion refers to the illicit transfer of legally prescribed controlled substances from the person it was prescribed for to another person.

A hospital official told investigators that in late March 2016, two nurses reported concerns about Quimby, who was working as a registered nurse at the hospital at the time.

The nurses said when they went to lunch one day, and Quimby was covering their patients, she gave one patient oxycodone and another patient oxycodone and Ativan. Before the nurses left, their patients did not report any pain, and one patient had never received Ativan before, prosecutors said.

When the hospital’s director of nursing pulled a pharmacy report, it showed Quimby was at the top of the list for administering narcotics, prosecutors said.

Officials then pulled the files for three patients, and interviewed the patients.

Quimby signed out oxycodone and/or tramadol for the patients, but the patients reported they did not take any medication on the days she reported giving it to them.

Looking over the patients’ records, prosecutors said in some instances there was no documentation the drugs were administered, while in other instance the drugs were reportedly given before the drugs were taken out of a medication dispensation system.

Quimby was interviewed by hospital officials on March 25, 2016, and answered questions before stopping the interview, the agent said. Quimby initially agreed to take a drug test, and then reportedly told officials she had prescriptions for oxycodone and tramadol.

After more questions from officials, Quimby resigned from her job and refused to submit the drug test, the agent said.