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The Controversy Surrounding Health Care Contract Workers Since Arrest of Med Tech

Aug 2, 2012

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Thursday, August 2, 2012. The arrest of David Kwiatkowski, a temporary radiologic technologist, for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C has shed a new light on temporary workers across the nation. Kwiatkowski worked in 13 hospitals in eight states between January 2007 and July 2012, inlcuding UPMC Presby in Pittsburgh, before he was arrested in a Massachusetts. During that time he...

The controversy surrounding health care contract workers since arrest of medical technician

Aug 2, 2012

The arrest of David Kwiatkowski, a temporary radiologic technologist, for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C has shed a new light on temporary workers across the nation. Kwiatkowski worked in 13 hospitals in eight states between January 2007 and July 2012, including UPMC Presby in Pittsburgh, before he was arrested in a Massachusetts. During that time he was employed by at least two staffing firms. The health care industry's work force is now...

Hepatitis C ‘Serial Infector’ Could Have Spread Disease to Thousands

Jul 28, 2012

ABC News is also reporting that "Hepatitis C 'Serial Infector' Could Have Spread Disease to Thousands." The report by Sydney Lupkin was posted to the ABC website on July 28, 2012 and indicates that "David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, had allegedly been stealing syringes of the anesthetic Fentanyl intended for patients, injecting his own arm and then refilling those empty syringes with another liquid-like saline, according to a...

Medical Technician Arrest in Connection with Hepatitis C Outbreak

Jul 19, 2012

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Thursday, July 19, 2012. According to CBS Boston, a medical tech has been arrested in connection with the recent Hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire. Reports claim that police arrested David Matthew Kwiatkowski, a traveling medical tech who was worked in the catheterization lab at Exeter Hospital from April 2011 to May 2012. The hospital says that a background check and drug screening was performed...