Rideout Health, the Yuba-Sutter county nonprofit healthcare system, will pay $2.4 million to settle federal claims that it allegedly mishandled records for thousands of drug transactions within three of its healthcare facilities, according to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice. The facilities listed in the settlement, announced Tuesday afternoon, included the Rideout [...]
Dec 7, 2016 10:43 AM By Erin McKinley An East Quogue woman stole 40 painkillers from the Hampton Bays medical facility that employs her mother, using a key to break into the closed facility on Friday, according to Southampton Town Police. Authorities said Stephanie Buergers, 33, broke into The Atrium on West Montauk Highway, a [...]
KITCHENER — A nurse who stole a painkiller from an elderly woman dying of cancer received a suspended sentenced and two years probation. Justice Elliott Allen also sentenced 36-year-old Kelly Reinhart to 100 hours of community service in a Kitchener courtroom Tuesday. Although Reinhart's lawyer, Brennan Smart, told the court "we are not advancing an [...]
A Clovis nurse will appear in Fresno County Superior Court on Thursday after being charged with 29 felony counts, the California Department of Consumer Affairs said Tuesday. Jennifer Steinbach, a registered nurse, faces charges that include 12 counts of obtaining controlled substances by fraud, 16 counts of making false statements in prescription records and one [...]
By WEEK Producer Pekin woman gets probation after stealing drugs from nursing home December 6, 2016 Updated Dec 6, 2016 at 3:19 PM CST EUREKA, Ill. -- A Pekin woman was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to stealing narcotics from a nursing home. Tracy Long, 32, was a nurse at Maple Lawn in Eureka [...]
“A doctor selling prescriptions for cash in a hotel parking lot is a drug dealer perpetuating one of America’s number one health threats – opioid abuse,” said James Hunt, special agent in charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Weintraub sold the informant the drugs during meetings in his car, [...]
A LEADING Perth pharmacist who stole and consumed thousands of dollars worth of strong opioid drugs while working at Fiona Stanley Hospital to relieve the pain he felt over his daughter's death has been handed a 12-month suspended prison term. Matthew Foster, 38, was sentenced in the Fremantle Magistrate's Court today for repeatedly stealing drugs, [...]
Prescription fraud is becoming a serious problem in Jamaica, and doctors who flout the law by not ensuring their names and registration numbers are clearly visible on all prescriptions are a major part of the problem. "The major problem is that the doctors do not usually print their names legibly, they don't write it in [...]
33-year-old Bridget Carr has been arrested for multiple counts of prescription fraud. (Photo: PCSO) PASCO COUNTY, Fla. -- 33-year-old Bridget Carr was arrested for prescription fraud on Saturday after an investigation was done by the Pasco Sheriff's Vice and Narcotics Unit. Carr was an office manager under Dr. Jose Turro, who worked at the doctor's [...]
MINOT, N.D. - A registered nurse faces a series of felony charges on accusations she stole pharmaceuticals from an assisted living home in Stanley. State prosecutors have accused 51-year-old Karen Evans of stealing 13 Percocet tablets from the Bethel Home in Stanley, where she works as a nurse. Prosecutors say that between May and August [...]