A second St. Anthony Central nurse is facing drug-pilfering charges, the hospital’s parent company, Centura Health, said in a statement Wednesday evening.
Mary Katherine Madill, 55, of Golden, a former emergency-room nurse, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of stealing the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
She was an employee of the hospital for 30 years, said Bev Lilly, a Centura spokeswoman.
Madill was booked into the Denver jail on a charge of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit and was released on a $3,000 bond.
Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver district attorney’s office, said the case is under investigation but does not immediately appear to be related to the July 16 arrest of Jillian Fischer, 43, a nurse in St. Anthony’s neuro/trauma unit.
Fischer is accused of stealing fentanyl and other painkillers, including Vicodin and morphine.
The St. Anthony cases follow drug charges against former Rose Medical Center surgical technician Kristen Diane Parker, who has hepatitis C and is accused of injecting herself with fentanyl, then returning the dirty syringes filled with saline.
Nineteen people, so far, have contracted hepatitis C as a result of surgery at Rose and Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, where Parker worked after she was fired from Rose in April, according to prosecutors.
Madill was fired July 1 because she was suspected of diverting drugs from patients, Lilly said.
