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Tyler Cole, a 32-year-old inmate, died of a methadone overdose at Connecticut’s Garner Correctional Institution, prompting a lawsuit alleging negligent medical care. One nurse involved, Isaac Folorunsho, held a fraudulent nursing degree from a Florida school under…
Connecticut suspended nurse Olga Rene’s license after discovering she obtained a fraudulent nursing degree from a Florida school implicated in the federal “Operation Nightingale” probe. The investigation exposed thousands of fake nursing degrees issued without…
Effective July 1, 2025, Florida’s House Bill 975 will require nearly all healthcare professionals to complete Level 2 fingerprint-based background screenings for both new licenses and renewals. The law expands disqualifying criminal offenses and makes timely screening…
April Guadalupe Hernandez, a 26-year-old certified nurse assistant from New Mexico, has been charged with 19counts of misconduct, including nursing without a license, abuse of a resident, and fraud. She allegedly stole identitiesfrom nurses in Texas, California, and…
A new law in Florida makes background screenings simpler by requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration(AHCA) to set up a public website detailing who needs a screening and how to get one. It allows reuse of screeningnumbers across multiple organizations,…
The Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board will require mandatory background checks beginning fall 2025 forinitial applicants, reinstatements, and temporary licenses in marriage and family therapy. The Kansas Bureau ofInvestigation will handle processing for a…
Effective July 1, 2025, Florida requires all health care practitioners—including those previously exempt—to undergoLevel 2 fingerprint-based background screening via the Department of Law Enforcement, both for new licensure and atthe first renewal after that date….
Although the car of a Mid-South nurse was found with meth, marijuana and 600 prescription pills inside, her license has remained untarnished. The state’s licensure verification database, along with the national database, Nursys, both state “no history of disciplinary…
Nursing home owners in the state of Georgia now are subject to the same requirements as frontline caregivers and other employees who interact with residents. Beginning Oct. 1, 2019, employees, owners and administrators will be required to undergo fingerprint…