What Happened
A travel nurse who worked at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia was sentenced to five years in prison for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and wrongful disclosure of health information.
From September 2021 to February 2022, the nurse used personal biometrics and patients' individually identifiable health information to check out hydromorphone from dispensing machines, siphoned off a portion of the drug from each vial, diluted the remainder with another substance to make it appear full, and canceled or nulled the transactions to conceal the removals.
What the Record Shows
Sentenced Jul 3, 2025, to five years in prison for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information; the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses indefinitely suspended her privilege to practice nursing in the state.
Why It Matters for Diversion Programs
This entry comes from a primary source rather than a federal enforcement release, and it is recorded as reported: Used personal biometrics and patients' individually identifiable health information to check out hydromorphone from dispensing machines, siphoned off a portion of the drug from each vial, diluted the remainder with another substance to make it appear full, and canceled or nulled the transactions to conceal the removals. Board and news records are a lagging indicator - by the time a licensing authority or a reporter learns of a diversion, the diversion was normally detected internally first, which makes each entry a signal that inventory reconciliation, waste observation or dispensing oversight failed earlier.