A North Tonawanda nurse practitioner working at a Lockport family health facility has been charged by Drug Enforcement Administration agents with conspiracy to distribute prescription opioids. Michael Ostolski, 55, was arrested by DEA agents on Thursday and charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute Oxymorphone. He pleaded not guilty to the charge during [...]
Women in labor received saline instead of pain meds, according to plea An Iowa nurse who stole pain medication from about 50 women in labor at a Waterloo hospital pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court. Christina Eileen Olson, formerly known as Christina Eileen Hovey, 43, of Waterloo — a former nurse — was convicted of [...]
An outbreak of hepatitis C among Good Samaritan emergency room patients has been linked to a nurse injecting herself with the drug and then using the same needles on patients. A former emergency department nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup admitted to tampering with vials of hydromorphone and fentanyl intended for patients. An investigation [...]
A pharmacy worker in Evansville is facing felony drug charges after the state Attorney General’s office says she stole narcotics from her employer. Officials say 53-year-old P. Huckelby worked at Select Specialty Hospital. Investigators say a supervisor at the hospital spotted her removing Hydrocodone for another nurse’s patient with no one else’s knowledge The supervisor [...]
A Greensboro nurse who was wanted for allegedly stealing 600 vials of a controlled substance from a hospice facility in Burlington was arrested on Monday, according to a Burlington Police Department news release. In late August, the BPD was contacted by Authoracare, Hospice of Alamance, after they discovered missing vials of medication from their facility. [...]
A Kentucky nurse is facing 52 criminal charges after she was found leaving a nursing home intoxicated and replacing morphine with water and blue food coloring, the Lexington Herald Leader reported Sept. 4. A. Hall, RN, 50, is a registered nurse at Lawrenceburg, Ky.-based Signature Healthcare at Heritage Hall Rehab and Wellness Center. On Aug. [...]
A former Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC) travel nurse will spend 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to stealing narcotics that were meant for patients in 2021. Jacqueline Brewster, of Belfry, Ky., will be granted judicial diversion after her guilty plea to one count of obtaining narcotics by fraud. Other than the 30 days, [...]
A male nurse who was recently hired at a South Florida hospital has been arrested after being caught in an elaborate scheme to steal fentanyl. According to police, 38-year-old E. Valentin, who was employed as a nurse at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital for nearly a month, was arrested on Thursday by Miami-Dade police for the [...]
A former Boston nurse pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of doses of opioids from an emergency room locked drug cabinet in 2019. Andrea Falzano, 39, pleaded guilty to withdrawing morphine, fentanyl and hydromorphone 412 times from the cabinet over a five-month period, according to an Aug. 4 Justice Department news release. She used information for [...]
Keene, N.H.-based Cheshire Medical Center will pay $2 million in connection with an incident in which gallons of fentanyl solution were lost or unaccounted for in a four-month period. The investigation began after a nurse stole 23 intravenous bags of fentanyl solution from a dispensing machine, according to a June 21 Justice Department news release. [...]