Oklahoma City hospital, INTEGRIS, agreed to a $120,000 settlement in a civil suit accusing the Integris Baptist Medical Center Pharmacy of not reporting fentanyl and hydromorphone thefts in a timely manner. The United States alleges that in October 2021 Integris Pharmacy failed to timely notify the Drug Enforcement Agency regarding drug thefts. More specifically, the [...]
A former registered nurse is facing charges after being accused of stealing drugs from a Dayton hospital. J. Archibald, 43, of Dayton, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury Monday on seven counts of theft of drugs and one count of tampering with drugs. Court documents indicate the alleged crimes took place between January [...]
Molly Munro, age 45, of Horsham, Montgomery County was sentenced Friday in court to 6-12 months in Chester County Prison, plus two years of reporting probation, for stealing Subutex in early 2020 from Recovery Centers of America in Devon where she worked as a nurse. According to Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan, Munro pled guilty in [...]
A former veterinarian, who admitted to stealing opioids, was sentenced today to eight months in federal prison. Patrick Gries, 54, of Madison Heights, Virginia, pleaded guilty in January 2022 to one count of adulteration of a drug held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce and one count of distribution of a controlled substance without [...]
Lazaro Hernandez, 51, of Miami, was arrested on June 17 for allegedly distributing millions of dollars worth of adulterated drugs for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that were eventually distributed to patients throughout the United States. Hernandez and co-conspirators established licensed wholesale drug distribution companies in New York, Florida, Connecticut, and New Jersey to distribute “adulterated and [...]
A Port Charlotte nurse is now facing criminal charges after taking several vials of a pain killer from the hospital she worked for. W. Alley was an emergency room nurse at Shorepoint Port Charlotte when she allegedly took 11 vials of hydromorphone without providing patient orders. The hospital requested the 46-year-old come in twice for [...]
A Butte nurse accused of stealing prescription pain medication from a hospital and nursing homes has pleaded guilty to three counts of unlawfully obtaining controlled substances. Shantyl Giacoletto, 30, had previously pleaded not guilty to four counts but changed her pleas on three of them before U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula on Thursday. [...]
Parents at a Fairfax County elementary school learned recently that a school nurse had stolen their children's medication, a newspaper found. The Fairfax Times reported that the Greenbriar East Elementary School health worker was swapping out the meds with allergy pills. The Fairfax County Health Department, which employs school health workers, alerted parents through a [...]
Danville Regional Medical Center, known as Sovah Health—Danville, agreed to the third-largest civil penalty ever obtained from a hospital system for claims of Controlled Substances Act violations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia (WDVA) announced. The $4.36 million settlement stems from Sovah Health—Danville operating in a manner that allowed employees to [...]
Leaders at a Keene, New Hampshire hospital have been sanctioned after nearly 8 gallons of fentanyl went missing over a 5-month period. Cheshire Medical Center's chief nursing officer Amy Matthews, DNP, RN, had her nursing license suspended late last month, and hospital pharmacy director Melissa Siciliano, PharmD, had her license reinstated after a temporary suspension [...]