The surgical technologist accused of stealing a powerful narcotic drug and risking the health of patients at a Colorado hospital was fired 17 months ago by an Arizona hospital for a drug-related problem.
HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center, a Phoenix hospital, announced late Saturday that any patient who had surgery while Rocky Allen was employed there can get free blood tests for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.
Its decision mirrors the action taken by Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, which has offered free blood tests to about 2,900 surgery patients during Allen’s term of employment.
The number of potentially affected patients is much smaller in Phoenix.
“We have identified 97 patients who were in a surgery” from July 28 to Sept. 26, 2014, when Allen worked at John C. Lincoln, the hospital said. For the full article click here
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