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Summary information of disciplinary actions taken against licensees, professional practice business entities, and pharmacy establishments by the Board of Regents in New York State since January 1, 1994, can be searched below by year, month, and profession. You may also search for an individual’s, entity’s or establishment’s status, and any applicable enforcement actions, with our Online Verification Search. Applicable disciplinary information will be listed under the Enforcement Actions tab within the search results.
In New York State, professional misconduct in all the professions (except that by physicians, physician assistants and specialist assistants, which is investigated and prosecuted by the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) of the Department of Health) is investigated and prosecuted by the New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions. The Board of Regents, which also has responsibility for licensure in all the professions, is responsible for the final disposition of all disciplinary matters except those handled by OPMC.
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April 1995
Nursing
RAYMOND CHARLES CROUSE; PERU, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 389239; Cal. No. 15152 15151
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of committing medication errors.
ROSEMARY POWERS P GRECO; VALLEY STREAM, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 237207; Cal. No. 12614
Action: Suspension until successfully completes a course of treatment - upon termination of suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of practicing the profession while her ability to practice was impaired by alcohol and drugs, involving respondent practicing the profession under the influence of wine and Valium while on duty.
CHERI ANN HAMMER; ORCHARD PARK, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 447829; Cal. No. 14727
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing to document the neurological assessment of a patient and failing to document the administration of medications to patients on four occasions.
AUDREY M HARRISON; WATERVLIET, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 275631; Cal. No. 15296
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of wilfully making false reports and failing to maintain accurate patient records relating to controlled substances.
PATRICIA BARTON LAWFER (A/K/A BARTON PATRICIA G); PLATTSBURGH, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 236225; Cal. No. 15164
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of medication errors.
LARRY G LEE; SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 412497; Cal. No. 15066
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year under various terms to commence upon return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of recording that he had performed assessments when he had not.
JENNIFER ELIZABETH MCKOY; BROOKLYN, NY.
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 203598; Cal. No. 14504 14505
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of numerous medication administration errors.
JENNIFER ELIZABETH MCKOY; BROOKLYN, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 420740; Cal. No. 14504 14505
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of numerous medication administration errors.
CRYSTAL L OLMSTEAD (A/K/A ROSE CRYSTAL L); FELTS MILLS, NY.
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 225618; Cal. No. 15150
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing to report a fallen patient and to document the incident.
CHARLES ONEAL; WYANDANCH, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 291296; Cal. No. 10667
Action: 3 year suspension, execution of last 24 months of suspension stayed, probation for last 24 months.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of having placed a patient in a tub of running water, failing to insure that the temperature of the water was safe, and having placed the patient in such a manner that the patient's head was in close proximity to the metal spigot, the patient thereafter being diagnosed with first and second degree burns which caused his death.
JANET MARIE PASSARIELLA (A/K/A WAGNER JANET M); DEPEW, NY.
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 109490; Cal. No. 14898
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of willfully making a false report.
JACQUINE CATHERINE ROBERTS (A/K/A MCCLOUD JACQUELINE CATHERINE); GOSHEN, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 309747; Cal. No. 15048
Action: Partial suspension in certain area until successfully completes certain course, probation 2 years under various terms to commence if and when return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing to record the administration of medication to patients.
FELICIA K SCHAEFER (A/K/A ROTTINO FELICIA A); MILLER PLACE, NY.
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 115563; Cal. No. 15293 15294
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of indicating on a physician's order sheet for a patient that she had received a verbal order from a physician to change medication, when she had not received the order and, indicating on a physician's order sheet for a patient that she had received a telephone order for medication for a patient, when the order was for a different patient.
HEATHER G SCHLITT (A/K/A GIBSON HEATHER LEE); PERU, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 454670; Cal. No. 15157
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of committing six medication administration errors.
FELICIA K SMITH (A/K/A SCHAEFER FELICIA K, ROTTINO FELICIA A); MILLER PLACE, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 365999; Cal. No. 15293 15294
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of indicating on a physician's order sheet for a patient that she had received a verbal order from a physician to change medication, when she had not received the order and, indicating on a physician's order sheet for a patient that she had received a telephone order for medication for a patient, when the order was for a different patient.
VICKY T S SMITH (A/K/A SMITH VICKY THOMPSON, THOMPSON VICKY SUE, HATFIELD VICKY SUE); HOMER, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 380020; Cal. No. 15163
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, 50 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of examining the medical records of a former patient of the hospital where respondent was employed, and revealing to third parties, the results of the examination of the records, without the patient's consent.
ELAINA FRANCES TURNER; WATKINS GLEN, NY.
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 219603; Cal. No. 15144
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of Driving While Intoxicated.
RONALD L WEILER;
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 267816; Cal. No. 14881
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of violating probation.
JOHN H WHALEN; OSWEGO, NY.
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 164293; Cal. No. 15279
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year under various terms to commence if and when return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing to administer medication to four patients in accordance with the physician's orders.
PENNY P WILLOUGHBY (A/K/A MCCARTY PENNY P); ELMIRA, NY.
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 330589; Cal. No. 15337
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 3 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of diverting Demerol from a patient's I.V. line for her own use.
Optometry
HARRY BERENHOLTZ;
Profession: Optometrist; Lic. No. 001125; Cal. No. 15282
Action: Indefinite suspension of not less than 3 months and until fit to practice - upon termination of suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of intentionally rubbing a patient's breasts during the course of an optometric examination.
Pharmacy
MICHAEL J BEDOSKY; WHITESTONE, NY.
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 022416; Cal. No. 13053
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $1,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of having dispensing pharmacists routinely failing to sign printouts of all prescriptions filled and refilled each day, dispensing prescriptions routinely not packed in child-resistant containers, holding for sale misbranded drugs, and not maintaining repacking records, and negligence on more than one occasion to the extent of respondent and employee pharmacists, as respondent knew or should have know, routinely failing to endorse on the face of their prescriptions their signatures.
MADOJUTOLA ZAHYDAT DAWODU (A/K/A DAWODU TOLA, DAWODU ZAHYDAT MADOJUTOLA); SOMERVILLE, MA.
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 037748; Cal. No. 14075
Action: 24 month suspension, execution of last 21 months of suspension stayed, probation 24 months under various terms, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of dispensing the wrong chemotherapy drug to a hospital patient on two consecutive days.
ROBERT E HALL; CANANDAIGUA, NY.
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 025307; Cal. No. 14816
Action: $2,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of dispensing a different strength of a non-controlled drug than that which was prescribed dispensing the wrong non-controlled drug and mislabelling the container in which said drug was dispensed.
EUGENE CLINTON HOLMAN JR; HOLLIS, NY.
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 019067; Cal. No. 14730
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year, 50 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing to provide adequate supervision of a registered establishment where he was employed as supervising pharmacist which was open for business even though it was not under the immediate supervision and management of a licensed pharmacist at that time.
WILLIAM GORDON INNERST; HOMER, NY.
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 024892; Cal. No. 13215
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $1,750 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of violating various pharmacy violations.
BENJAMIN ISRAELI; WOODMERE, NY.
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 028492; Cal. No. 13051
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $1,500 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of holding for sale misbranded drugs, not maintaining repacking records, and failing routinely to sign printouts of all the prescriptions filled and refilled each day.
ROBERT A JORDAN; WEST AMHERST, NY.
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 029216; Cal. No. 15044
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $1,000 fine, 100 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of dispensing for other than a legitimate medical purpose a quantity of a substance containing Phenformin.
NICHOLAS AVE. PHARMACY INC.; BROOKLYN, NY
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 021646; Cal. No. 15172
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Retail Pharmacy admitted to charges of refilling a prescription for a controlled substance three times, each time earlier than seven days prior to the date he previously dispensed supply, which would have been exhausted if used in conformity with the directions for use.
PRESCRIPTION HEADQUARTERS FOREST HILLS, INC.; FOREST HILLS, NY
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 017255; Cal. No. 13049
Action: $2,000 fine, probation 2 years.
Summary: Retail Pharmacy was found guilty of charges of holding for sale misbranded drugs and not maintaining repacking records.