What Happened
Travel nurse from Belfry, KY was sentenced to two years for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and three years for wrongful disclosure of health information, consecutive, for diverting hydromorphone from dispensing machines at Raleigh General Hospital. The WV nursing board indefinitely suspended her practice privilege.
Reported status: Sentenced (2025); terms are in the source; license suspended.
About This Entry
This entry reports only what the linked source states. Fields the source does not state (for example the employer type, drug schedule or a sentence) are left out rather than inferred, so it is shorter than the registry's fully analysed cases.
Related Guidance
- Hospital Diversion Prevention Checklist — Self-assessment covering the controls that detect and deter diversion.
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and recordkeeping indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to run an internal diversion investigation.
- Employee Screening & Fitness for Duty — Screening and vetting for staff with controlled substance access.