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Employing Barred Nurse Costs Eastern Iowa Hospital
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa hospital has agreed to pay more than $406,000 to settle federal allegations that it employed a nurse who was on a federal list of barred people.
The Des Moines Register reports Buchanan County Health Center in Independence had hired Stephanie Davison, of Mitchellville, in January 2007. She worked there until dismissed in May 2011. Davison had been convicted for theft in 2001 and forgery in 2002 and faced a drug charge in 2003. The federal government bars some people from working in federally funded health care facilities because of criminal or other misconduct. The county-owned hospital's chief executive officer agreed the hospital would pay the federal government more than $406,000 to settle the matter. The hospital says that "at no time was patient care a concern." More Good Stuff |
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