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Brett Kelman of KHN

This rural Tennessee county was a vaccine success story. Not anymore.

Brett Kelman of KHN

May 19, 2022

At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place. A small county northeast of Chattanooga, along the twisting banks of Chickamauga Lake, for much of the past year has reported the highest covid-19 vaccination rate in Tennessee and one of the highest in the South. Meigs County, which […]

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID-19, vaccine

No prison time for RaDonda Vaught, former Vanderbilt nurse convicted of fatal drug error

Brett Kelman of KHNandBlake Farmer

May 13, 2022

RaDonda Vaught protest

RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center convicted of two felonies for a fatal drug error and whose trial became a rallying cry for nurses fearful of the criminalization of medical mistakes, will not be required to spend any time in prison.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: medical error, nurses, RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Why nurses are raging and quitting after the RaDonda Vaught verdict

Brett Kelman of KHN

April 5, 2022

Vaught verdict reaction

Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, Oregon, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and undertrained. Coronavirus patients flooded the clinic for two years, and Moore struggled to keep up.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

At a Tennessee crossroads, two pharmacies, a monkey and millions of pills

Brett Kelman of KHN

March 29, 2022

Dale Hollow Pharmacy

Federal prosecutors say a Celina pharmacy courted opioid seekers by filling dangerous prescriptions and offering cash handouts to keep customers coming back, including its own currency called “monkey bucks.”

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Celina, Clay County, opioids, pharmacy

In nurse’s trial, investigator says Vanderbilt bears ‘heavy’ responsibility for patient death

Brett Kelman of KHN

March 24, 2022

A lead investigator in the criminal case against former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught testified Wednesday that state investigators found Vanderbilt University Medical Center had a “heavy burden of responsibility” for a grievous drug error that killed a patient in 2017, but pursued penalties and criminal charges only against the nurse and not the hospital itself.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: nurses, RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

As a former Vanderbilt nurse faces prison for a deadly error, her colleagues worry: Could I be next?

Brett Kelman of KHN

March 22, 2022

RaDonda Vaught

Four years ago, inside the most prestigious hospital in Tennessee, nurse RaDonda Vaught withdrew a vial from an electronic medication cabinet, administered the drug to a patient, and somehow overlooked signs of a terrible and deadly mistake.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: nurses, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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