7 accused of hurting elderly or disabled, stealing medicine

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7 accused of hurting elderly or disabled, stealing medicine

By Deanna Boyd
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Posted on Thu, Feb. 19, 2004

FORT WORTH - Seven current and former employees of three Fort Worth nursing homes were arrested Wednesday, accused of injury to the elderly or disabled and stealing patients' prescribed medications.

Five of the women were arrested on warrants accusing them of injury to the elderly. Two face charges of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

The nurses are accused of neglecting to treat Faye Sellers for severely infected pressure sores in her groin area.

"We know that a wound developed, and had it, in our opinion, been first noticed as it should have been and then treated, it never would have grown to the state that it did, which resulted in the serious injury," Brewer said.

Sellers, a 90-year-old stroke victim, died Dec. 18, 2001, from sepsis and pneumonia.

"...In the drug cases, Nancy Smothers Way, 52, and Sharron Fay Clark, 61, licensed vocational nurses at Southwest, are accused of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

Affidavits accuse them of placing fraudulent telephone orders for hydrocodone.

"They marked that they gave the medication, yet they never did," Brewer said. "They took it for themselves...."

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/7989122.htm

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. That is just BEYOND fucked!

And if the company was SO understaffed as to NOT have charts being monitored and their facilities being monitored in order to preclude this sort of thing, they DESERVE to get their asses sued off.

[mouse7]

2. What's scary is I posted 3 abuse stories on the blog from TODAY

I just got the new blog you see linked started Thursday afternoon. One google news search brought up 3 abuse stories from today's news.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Saw those other stories

When posted in tandem it doesn't fare well for us a society.

[izzie]

4. It is what the top people let them get away with.

The people can do a lot but nice to have a good leader. Texas does not show that at all. It seems to be a state where anything goes and it is top down. Every Republican.s knew this and said it 1000 times a week about Clinton and his morals. In business anything goes with this same people who said Clinton was so bad.Sex is sin but stealing in business is good, and Godly. I have never figured it out.