Washington
State disciplines health care providers
For instant launch: June 3, 2022 (22-077)
Contact: Sharon Moysiuk, Communications 360-549-6471
Public inquiries: Well being Techniques Buyer Service 360-236-4700
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Division of Well being has taken disciplinary actions or withdrawn costs towards the next well being care suppliers in our state.
The division’s Well being Techniques High quality Assurance Division works with boards, commissions, and advisory committees to set licensing requirements for greater than 80 well being care professions (e.g., dentists, nurses, counselors). Details about disciplinary motion taken towards medical medical doctors and doctor assistants might be discovered on the Washington Medical Fee (WMC) web site. Questions on WMC disciplinary actions might be despatched to media@wmc.wa.gov.
Details about well being care suppliers is on the company web site. Click on on “Lookup a well being care supplier license” within the “How Do I?” part of the Division of Well being web site (doh.wa.gov). The positioning contains details about a well being care supplier’s license standing, the expiration and renewal date of their credential, disciplinary actions and copies of authorized paperwork issued after July 1998. This info can also be accessible by calling 360-236-4700. Customers who suppose a well being care supplier acted unprofessionally are inspired to name and report their criticism.
Benton County
In March 2022 the secretary of well being ordered Sami Anwar to stop and desist from working towards drugs in Washington and pay a nice of $1,000. Anwar was the chief working officer of a medical heart and intervened in medical care on the heart, however he has by no means held a credential to follow as a doctor or a surgeon in Washington.
Clark County
In April 2022 the Nursing Fee ended situations on the registered nurse license of Jill Suzanne Thompson (RN60864873).
Cowlitz County
In April 2022 the Nursing Fee ended probation on the registered nurse license of Daniel Okay. Stoneking (RN00172588).
Grant County
In April 2022 the House Care Aide Program charged dwelling care aide Alison Daybreak Sedlacek (HM60620759) with unprofessional conduct. Sedlacek allegedly took a hydrocodone tablet from a resident on the grownup household dwelling the place she labored.
King County
In April 2022 the Medical Assistant Program charged licensed medical assistant Heidi Marie Vaughn (CM60366750) with unprofessional conduct. Vaughn was convicted of gross misdemeanor theft in Federal Method Municipal Court docket and Snohomish County District Court docket in 2015. In 2016, Vaughn was convicted of illegal solicitation to own a managed substance in Pierce County Superior Court docket. Vaughn allegedly failed to offer a required clarification to a division of well being investigator.
In April 2022 the Nursing Fee reinstated with situations the registered nurse license of Chris Leon Porter (RN00148053). Porter agreed to the situations, which place his license on probation and prohibits him from working towards till he has efficiently accomplished a refresher course. His credential will then stay on probation for no less than 18 months, throughout which era he might not educate and should not settle for employment in well being care with out prior approval from the Nursing Fee. He should additionally submit progress stories and be sure that his employer submits quarterly employer stories.
In April 2022 the Dental Fee charged dentist Stephen L. Ong (DE00006528) with unprofessional conduct for alleged improper record-keeping and remedy beneath the usual of care.
Pierce County
In April 2022 the Nursing Fee charged registered nurse Elizabeth Tracy Anderson (RN60136609) with unprofessional conduct after she was allegedly out of compliance with a substance use monitoring program.
Snohomish County
In April 2022 the House Care Aide Program charged dwelling care aide Mary Mellisa Carver (HM60680966) with unprofessional conduct. Carver allegedly failed to offer a required assertion to a division of well being investigator associated to a criticism alleging Carver made sexual advances towards a resident on the assisted residing facility the place she was the actions director.
In April 2022 the secretary of well being reinstated the registered nursing assistant license of Raquel Rona Kenagy (NA60451636).
Spokane County
In April 2022 the secretary of well being granted with situations an company affiliated counselor license to Tawni Ashlyn Zuniga (CG61231426). Zuniga agreed to the situations, which embody 4 years’ probation, skilled supervision, and quarterly stories. Between 2018 and 2020, Zuniga was convicted of housebreaking and assault-domestic violence, amongst different issues.
In April 2022 the Chiropractic Fee charged chiropractor Timothy Bruce Worth (CH00034209) with unprofessional conduct for allegedly partaking in sexual exercise and sexually demeaning conduct with a affected person.
Yakima County
In April 2022 the Nursing Fee ended situations on the registered nurse license of Mark D. Younger (RN00136107).
Out of State
Oregon: In April 2022 the Nursing Fee and registered nurse Victoria Dimm Deeks (RN00077017) entered an settlement that requires Deeks to take part in a substance use monitoring program. The Oregon State Board of Nursing suspended Deeks’ license for one 12 months after which Deeks’ license was to be positioned on probation for 36 months with random urine drug testing after Deeks was convicted of driving whereas underneath the affect of intoxicants in Oregon.
South Dakota: In April 2022 the Nursing Fee charged registered nurse Megan Colleen Grissom (RN60536670) with unprofessional conduct for violating the situations of a substance use monitoring contract she agreed to take part in in lieu of self-discipline.
Be aware to Editors: Well being care suppliers charged with unprofessional conduct have 20 days to reply to the Division of Well being in writing. The case then enters the settlement course of. If no disciplinary settlement might be reached, the case will go to a listening to.
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