DENVER (CBS4) - Swedish Medical Center outsourced the background check on its former surgical tech who is serving time in federal prison for taking the painkiller fentanyl from patients ...

When Rocky Allen applied to become a surgical technologist at Swedish ... “Like most hospitals, our hiring process includes a background check by a third party, interviews by managers and ...

Background checks haven’t been part of ... as well as the drug-theft convictions in 2010 of Kristen Parker, a surgical tech who infected dozens of patients with hepatitis C when she stole ...

They claim Northwest Hospital failed to conduct adequate background checks before hiring Rocky Allen, 28, who was indicted in Colorado in February after being charged with stealing a syringe of ...

Authorities say an HIV-positive surgical tech stole syringes with fentanyl ... making it more difficult to vet his background. Swedish would not explain exactly what it did to vet Allen before ...

Rogue Community College (RCC) has announced a new partnership with Providence Medford Medical Center and Linn-Benton ...

That second, unknown assistant is a surgical technologist, or surgical tech, and how well they perform their job is crucial to the team effort it requires to perform a successful surgery.

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(KGO) -- Motivated by his children, Silicon Valley dad and tech worker Kevin Ngo is using his background to help ... said as he held up a single use, surgical mask. "Which are pretty outdated ...

Chicago (May 10, 2013): Ambient background noise—whether it is the sound of loud surgical equipment, talkative team members, or music—is a patient and surgical safety factor that can affect ...