Nursing Home Patients Continue To Receive Drugs Associated With Known Dangers
Through no fault of their own, many nursing home patients continue to receive medications known to potentially cause serious injury or death. Many of these situations involve claims for damage against the drug manufacturers themselves. In other cases, the prescribing physician may be partially responsible for failing to monitor the patient. MRI Danger: Gadolinium Liquid May Cause Severe Reactions Such As Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis In 1988 the FDA approved the use of Gadolinium for use as a contrast agent in MRI's. Contrast agents help in enhancing the clarity of MRI images. Gadolinium bonds with damaged or diseased tissues giving doctors...
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Drug Dealing Nursing Home Worker To Serve 3 Years In Jail
The former assistant director of nursing of a Virginia Nursing Home will serve three years in prison for the illegal distribution and sale of drugs. Linda Sloan Quick stole the drugs from the Rocky Mount Nursing Home during her tenure there. The drugs Quick stole were either expired, prescribed for a deceased patient or belonged to a resident who was transferred to another facility. An anonymous informant tipped off the sheriff's department that a person at the nursing home was selling prescription drugs. During an investigation at the facility, an informant directed police to Quick. Undercover police made multiple purchases...
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Wanted: 20-30 year old female, 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-6, 130 to 160 lbs, brown hair and acne scars on her face
The above description is of a person in Clinton, Iowa police are searching for. The woman called the Alverno Health Care Facility and tricked an employee of the facility into giving her the names of several nursing home patients with Fentanyl patches. The woman then went into the facility to visit the patients whose names she was given. The woman tore the Fentanyl patches off the patients bodies and fled the facility. Read more about this incident involving stolen medication here. Obviously, this facility is responsible for this incident. How and why they would release the names of residents is...
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Woman Poses As Nurse To Steal Medication From Nursing Home Residents
A woman accused of sneaking into Beaverton's Maryville Nursing Home has been arrested. Theresa Kim Smith is a certified nursing assistant in the Portland area and someone the police listed as “a person of interest” in a reported theft of Fentanyl pain patches. The suspect woman posed as an employee at the Maryville Nursing Home on three separate occasions, but no motive was suspected at the time. Tips from the public led police to interview Smith, and the stealing Fentanyl patches from residents could be a possible motive. Smith, who works at the Care Center East Nursing Home in Portland,...
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