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Indianapolis hospital fined $2M for drug violation
An Indianapolis, Ind.-based hospital has been fined $2 million by federal authorities for failing to accurately track stolen painkillers. Over the past two years, a pharmacy employee with St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital allegedly stole 623,843 tablets of hydrocodone, turning them over to her adult son for street sale. Despite the high volume of drugs stolen--and tough laws mandating tight controls on this class of drugs--St. Vincent's wasn't aware the drugs were missing. The employee was caught when a local drug task force tracked the flow of drugs from the son to the hospital's outpatient clinic for low-income and uninsured patients, where his mother worked. The hospital has apologized for the weaknesses in its system which allowed the drugs to go missing unnoticed.
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