Nashville hospital, defendant in meningitis suit, sought to avoid being identified in early stages of outbreak
Feb. 16, 2013 3:25 AM
Written by
Tom Wilemon and Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean
Despite distancing itself from the clinic that bears its name, Saint Thomas
Health still wound up as a legal defendant in the fungal meningitis outbreak.
Saint Thomas tried to keep from being named as state officials prepared to
alert the public about meningitis cases tied to tainted steroid injections at a
pain clinic it half-owned. It asserted that the clinic wasn’t actually in its
flagship hospital.But the first lawsuit against Saint Thomas Health accuses it of
having concocted “the fiction of a corporate veil.”
Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgery Center was used as a “subterfuge” to
engage in the “illegal conduct” of purchasing 2,500 vials of medicine from New
England Compounding Center in violation of patient safety laws that require
specific prescriptions for individual patients, according to the complaint.
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Written by
Tom Wilemon and Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean
Despite distancing itself from the clinic that bears its name, Saint Thomas
Health still wound up as a legal defendant in the fungal meningitis outbreak.
Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgery Center was used as a “subterfuge” to engage in the “illegal conduct” of purchasing 2,500 vials of medicine from New England Compounding Center in violation of patient safety laws that require specific prescriptions for individual patients, according to the complaint.
Continue reading article and view video.
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