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 [...]
(Source: WBTV/File) CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Multiple people accused of prescription fraud were taken into custody Wednesday night after crashing a vehicle while running from police. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say they were called to a prescription fraud report at the Walgreens in the 9400 block of Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road around 8:40 p.m. Police say four people [...]
After 70 years as a Santa Barbara staple, L.M. Caldwell Pharmacist is shutting its doors this week after the state’s Board of Pharmacy accused the company of routinely oversupplying powerful painkillers. Since taking over his father’s business in 1967, Peter Caldwell has run two shops on State and Pueblo streets. They were the last of the [...]
KUSA - A new Colorado bill would require more than 160,000 medical professionals to get background checks based on their fingerprints in order to practice medicine in the state. The bill is called the Patient Safety Act of 2017 and would require the background checks for doctors and nurses who prescribe medication. The federal background [...]
JOHN RABY, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A major California-based drug wholesaler has agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations that it failed to detect and report pharmacies' suspicious orders of prescription pain pills, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The settlement commits San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. to a multi-year suspension of sales of controlled [...]