A former respiratory therapist has pleaded guilty in the deaths of two patients at a Missouri hospital two decades ago.
and 37-year-old David Wesley Harper, The Kansas City Star reported. She also pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault.Franco and Harper were among nine patients who died at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe over several months in 2002 in what charging documents describe as"medically suspicious" events.
From December 2001, when Hall started working at the hospital, until she was placed on administrative leave the following May, there also were 18 cardiac arrests or"Code Blue" events, up from an average of one a year before then. The case was revived after an analysis of Franco's tissue samples found morphine and a powerful muscle relaxant used in anesthesia in her system. Neither drug was prescribed or ordered for her by her doctors, investigators said., her access to deadly pharmaceuticals, and because she notified staff of every patient's cardiac emergency, according to court documents.
Prosecutors said an autopsy revealed medications which paralyzed Franco's diaphragm and were not prescribed, KCTV reported. "I didn't know my grandma. But given the chance I may have known her. Right now, I'm focused on getting answers and helping other families get the answers they deserve," Franco told the station.In this self portrait, Aprille Franco holds a photo of her grandmother, Fern Franco, when Fern Franco was young in this photo taken Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
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