DENVER—A nurse at St. Anthony Central Hospital has been accused of stealing narcotics and faces six criminal charges.
Jillian Fischer, 43, was arrested July 16, accused on six counts of fraudulently obtaining controlled substances between May 24 and June 6. Denver police spokeswoman Sharon Avendano said Friday.
Fischer, who has been released on $3,000 bail, allegedly took Dilaudid, Fentanyl, Vicodin, Ativan, morphine and Valium from the hospital. An arrest affidavit said Fischer told co-workers she injected herself with Dilaudid, a form of morphine.
Avendano said the investigation is ongoing. A message left at a number listed for Fischer was not immediately returned and it wasn’t immediately clear whether she had an attorney.
Prosecutors expect to file charges on Monday and Fischer is scheduled in court Thursday, district attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said.
Hospital spokeswoman Bev Lilly said none of patients were deprived of medication and the case did not involve tampering.
The case follows two other recent criminal probes involving medical workers and drugs. Surgical technician Kristen Diane Parker has been accused of tampering with medication and possibly exposing up to 8,800 patients to hepatitis C at hospitals in Colorado and New York.
In June, nurse Ashton Paul Daigle of Fort Collins plead guilty to federal charges stemming from accusations that he substituted tap water or saline solution for Fentanyl meant for patients in Boulder. And a former hospice nurse in Greeley was accused earlier this year of forging prescriptions to get pain pills.
