Showing posts with label Royal Palm Compounding Pharmacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royal Palm Compounding Pharmacy. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

MUST READ!! State board gave reprieve to Webster pharmacy Royal Palm Specialty Pharmacy--Teen had suffered heart attack after taking medication By Todd Wallack | GLOBE STAFF JULY 09, 2013


Just months before a meningitis outbreak exposed major holes in the state’s oversight of pharmacies, regulators abandoned a plan to shut down a Massachusetts pharmacy whose medication error sent a teenager to the emergency room with a heart attack. They have yet to discipline the company for the mistake.
State records obtained by the Globe show that in July 2011, Royal Palm Specialty Pharmacy of Webster accidentally gave a boy thyroid medication that was 1,000 times too strong, requiring him to be hospitalized with serious heart problems. The board found out about the incident only when the boy’s mother complained four months later, even though pharmacies are required to promptly report serious errors.
But, after initially voting to shut down Royal Palm last July, members of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy reversed themselves a week later and decided to negotiate a settlement with the company instead, the records show.
A year later, the board has yet to reach an agreement with the company or discipline the pharmacy. And Royal Palm has continued to operate with few restrictions, though the company has acknowledged the mistake to regulators and promised to take steps to prevent similar accidents in the future.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Royal Palm Compounding Pharmacy Disciplined by North Carolina Board of Pharmacy


THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF PHARMACY recently entered a consent order of discipline against
Royal Palm Compounding Pharmacy.  To view the consent order, click here.