Hospice is a booming business that serves 1.6 million people a year in the U.S. But a report in The Washington Post points out that it's also an industry without much oversight or consequences where end-of-life-care at home could lead to stolen medication -- particularly opioids. Recent studies revealed that hospice care teams aren't trained [...]
TAYLORSVILLE, NC (WBTV) - The director of the Alexander Assisted Living facility just south of Taylorsville was arrested late Wednesday in front of residents she now is accused of stealing from. Holly Lawing, 37, is accused of obtaining controlled substance by fraud or subterfuge. Investigators believe she was taking the opioid Hydromorphone and Xanax. That [...]
A 32-year-old Sarnia nurse has been charged related to the theft of narcotics from Bluewater Health. David Cartwright, a nurse at Bluewater Health in Sarnia was arrested and charged on Wednesday. Cartwright faces three counts of theft under $5,000, three counts of possession of fentanyl and one count of possession of morphine. An investigation in [...]
SYRAC-- USE, N.Y. -- The state has suspended the nursing license of a Cicero woman with a long history of stealing drugs and cash from her employers. Kelly Lynn Griffin's license to work as a licensed practical nurse has been suspended for at least three months and she's been fined $500. Griffin is also known [...]
CHRISTIANA, Pa. (WHTM) – A Lancaster County nurse is accused of stealing Oxycodone, fentanyl and other prescription pills while she worked at an assisted-living center in Christiana. The district attorney’s office says 24-year-old Kayla M. Buckwalter used another employee’s login to get into a locked area at Harrison House on several occasions between April and [...]
BOYNTON BEACH A medical assistant at a Delray Beach medical office is accused of stealing several blank prescription pads from her work and trying to fill an order of 90 Percocets at a Publix Super Market last week, investigators said. Michelle Bonito, 27, of Hypoluxo told police that she used her key to break into [...]
JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) – A Johnson City Medical Center nurse is back at work after a grand jury indicted her last month on charges related to drug diversion. Not only is her employer standing behind her, but Mountain States Health Alliance’s chief nursing executive said helping recovering nurses return to the workforce and being [...]
A Philadelphia woman who had previously been a medical assistant at a Wilmington doctor's office was charged by Delaware State Police with distributing falsified prescriptions on a stolen pad. According to authorities, troopers were dispatched to the Walgreens at 38 Fox Hunt Drive in Bear in May 2017, where an individual they identified as 25-year-old [...]
A contracted nurse anesthetist’s sentence was cut in half Tuesday after a plea deal was reached in a case involving the theft of powerful painkillers from Manning Regional Healthcare Center. On Tuesday, 52-year-old David Michael Anderson of Boone was sentenced to 10 months in prison with credit for time served and $1,000 in fines on [...]
PLEASANT GROVE — Police on Sunday arrested a part-time firefighter accused of breaking into the Pleasant Grove fire station and stealing drugs. Brenden Ivie, 21, of Pleasant Grove, was booked into the Utah County Jail for investigation of drug possession, theft and burglary. Ivie is a part-time firefighter for the Unified Fire Authority and has [...]