Attorneys representing both living and deceased patients of an Oregon hospital filed a $303 million lawsuit against the facility on Tuesday after a nurse was accused of replacing prescribed fentanyl with nonsterile tap water in intravenous drips.
The wrongful death and medical malpractice complaint accuses Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford of negligence. The suit says the hospital failed to monitor medication administration procedures and prevent drug diversion by their employees, among other claims.
Dani Marie Schofield, a former nurse at the hospital, was arrested in June and charged with 44 counts of second-degree assault. The charges stemmed from a police investigation into the theft and misuse of controlled substances that resulted in patient infections. She has pleaded not guilty.
The 18 plaintiffs in the new suit include nine patients and the estates of nine patients who died. According to the suit, the hospital began informing them in December that an employee had replaced fentanyl with tap water, causing bacterial infections.
She replaced it with TAP WATER. If you inject something that’s sterile, at least they won’t DIE. Putting pure nonsterile tap water right into people’s blood stream leads a lot of confusing infections that can easily be traced back.
This lady was a moron and killed multiple people because she apparently doesn’t understand basic medical practice.
I cannot explain how crazy this is. Like medical knowledge 101.
Her intention was theft of the fentanyl. Everything else was secondary.
Second degree assault does not seem to cut it here
She was diverting meds.
I’m amazed at how many dumb nurses there are. Like how. You passed the same NCLEX everyone else has to take.
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They don’t call it Methford for nothing.
If only drugs were legal
That’s the trick, until this last Sunday fentanyl was legal in Oregon…
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