What Happened
The Tennessee Board of Emergency Medical Services took disciplinary action against a paramedic practising in Hendersonville, Tennessee, in a case the board's own order describes as involving controlled-substance diversion.
The action appears in the January 2026 Disciplinary Action Report published by the Tennessee Department of Health. The order records that the licensee diverted controlled substances from their employer. The report states neither the drug nor the quantity, and it is an administrative record: the board acts on its own investigation, and its findings are not a criminal conviction.
What the Board Did
The board revoked the licence. Licensing action and criminal exposure are separate tracks that can both follow the same diversion: a prosecutor may never charge conduct that a board still disciplines, and a board can act on conduct no prosecutor sees.
Why It Matters for Diversion Programs
Board disciplinary reports are the most complete public record of healthcare-worker diversion in most states and the most routinely overlooked, because compliance teams tend to track federal enforcement instead. They are also a lagging indicator: by the time a board acts, the diversion was normally detected internally first. A licence action is a signal that inventory reconciliation, waste observation or dispensing oversight failed well before the board became involved.