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EchaSez

Hope is the thing with feathers.
09/13/17

PITTSBURGH — A lawsuit filed by 16 patients and patient relatives alleges Jefferson Hospital was negligent and had lax supervision and policies in 2012 when a hospital pharmacy technician stole Oxycodone that was mean to ease the severe pain of patients -- including some patients fighting late-stage cancer -- and replaced it with other pills that do nothing for pain. Other patients were recovering from amputation or other surgery or were accident victims.

"(There was) at least a four-month period where patients in pain, who needed pain relief, did not get their pain relief and remained in pain." said attorney Alan Perer. "It only came to light when a patient's daughter looked at the pill that was being given by a nurse to her mother and said that did not look like an Oxycodone."

"This isn't something that the hospital discovered, and that's what's so upsetting about this," said attorney Jennifer Webster. "...

...Webster and Perer, of SPK, the Law Firm of Swensen & Perer, filed the lawsuit in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday..

The suit seeks to hold Jefferson Hospital responsible for not preventing the 2012 criminal actions of the then-employee who alreadypleaded guilty and served time. Fired hospital pharmacy technician Cheryl Ashcraft was sentenced to 6 to 12 months in prison, plus three years on probation. The attorneys said that when confronted, the pharmacy technician admitted to stealing the Oxycodone of patients, switching it out with other pills, leaving the patients to suffer. The pills switched for the Oxycodone were anti-nausea medicine or thyroid medication.

"In their last days, they saw them in agony. And they get a letter saying it was because they weren't getting their pain medication," Webster said.

In the letter, the hospital notified 362 patients of what happened after the employee admitted what she did.

http://www.wtae.com/article/lawsuit-pharmacy-tech-stole-oxycodone/12235678

01/08/13

PITTSBURGH —A former pharmacy technician at a Pittsburgh-area hospital is charged with stealing prescription painkillers meant for patients, which she allegedly swapped for other medications.

Officials at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Jefferson Hills informed more than 300 patients that they might have received an anti-nausea drug instead of the oxycodone that was allegedly stolen.

...Attorney general's investigators have charged 43-year-old Cheryl Ashcraft, of New Eagle, with stealing those drugs to feed her habit of up to 10 pills a day...

http://www.wtae.com/article/ag-hospital-tech-stole-painkillers-swapped-drugs/7459464
 
What a horrible thing to do. Give her placebos for the rest of her life. It's pretty sad the nurses didn't realize the difference in the medications.
 
What a despicable witch.
Lock the junkie up til she dries out, then break a finger a week with no pain meds for her for the rest of her life.
 
I've been considering subbing my dad's painkillers with asprin. I could use some of that methadone. Maybe a little pain for years of abuse?
 

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