Former ICU nurse arrested on suspicion of replacing fentanyl with tap water
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A former intensive care unit nurse in Oregon has been arrested for allegedly diverting fentanyl from medical drips and replacing it with tap water.
The Medford Police Department said in a news release that Dani Marie Schofield was arrested on Thursday after a "lengthy investigation" into allegations of drug diversion at Asante Rogue Regional Hospital between 2022 and 2023.
The seven-month investigation began in early December 2023, the department said, after hospital officials became "concerned with a rising number of central line infection cases" in patients at the facility. An internal investigation found that all of the cases involved patients in the intensive care unit. Schofield, who left the hospital in July 2023, had access to each of the patients, the police department said.
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