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Two Colorado nurses jailed for stealing drugs had hopped from hospital to hospital, losing jobs for
Two Colorado nurses jailed for stealing drugs had hopped from hospital to hospital, losing jobs for similar behaviorTwo Colorado nurses who repeatedly put patients at risk by stealing powerful painkillers from the hospitals where they worked had already lost jobs at other health-care facilities for similar behavior, court documents show.
It is the latest in a string of cases in which medical professionals in Colorado hopped from hospital to hospital without their drug problems being identified.
U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson recently sentenced the nurses in separate cases to prison terms after federal prosecutors argued that their drug thefts endangered vulnerable patients.
Jackson on Friday sentenced Lisa Marie Jones, 43, to 14 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to stealing fentanyl, morphine and hydromorphone from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver and UCHealth in Aurora in 2016 and 2017. On April 20, Jackson sentenced Marlene Gilmore, 28, to four months in prison after she pleaded guilty to stealing those drugs from North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley in 2016.
Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/01/colorado-nurses-opioid-theft/