Updated 3:57 pm, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman who pretended to be a nurse at a St. Louis hospital was sentenced to five years of probation and eight months of house arrest. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 36-year-old Samantha Rivera, who was sentenced Wednesday, also was ordered to repay $21,500 to a staffing agency that placed her in an intensive care unit at St. Alexius Hospital and $28,000 to a New Mexico nursing school where she previously taught. Prosecutors say Rivera used faked experience and credentials to get a job at St. Alexius. Rivera's public defender, Charles Banks, said Rivera suffered trauma in her past that caused her bizarre behavior. Latest Houston & Texas News Now Playing: Now Playing Three Shipley's robberies in Houston captured on video Houston Police Department Texas Power Brokers: Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton San Antonio Express-News Graphic video released in violent home invasion … [Read more...] about House arrest, probation for fake nurse at St. Louis hospital
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House arrest, probation for fake nurse who worked in St. Louis hospital
ST. LOUIS • A woman who used faked experience and credentials to get a job as a nurse at a St. Louis hospital was sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation and eight months of house arrest. Samantha Rivera, 36, will also have to repay about $21,500 to the staffing agency that placed her in the intensive care unit at St. Alexius Hospital and $28,000 to the New Mexico nursing school where she taught before that. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey blasted Rivera in court, asking her first, "What the hell were you thinking?" Autrey called her actions reprehensible, saying a patient could have been killed or seriously injured because of Rivera's "muddling about" in the ICU. "You need to do some serious soul searching and think about what you did and what could have happened," Autrey told Rivera. Rivera's public defender, Charles Banks, had asked for house arrest rather than prison time. Banks cited a trauma in Rivera's past that had derailed a promising life and caused … [Read more...] about House arrest, probation for fake nurse who worked in St. Louis hospital
A St. Louis hospital opened in France during World War I
For nearly two years during World War I, a St. Louis hospital set up an outpost near the battlefields in France. Dr. Fred Murphy, head of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, realized the allies needed help when he volunteered at an American hospital in Paris in 1916 before the U.S. entered the war. When he came back to St. Louis, Murphy recruited dozens of doctors, nurses, medical students and other personnel from the university and then-Barnes Hospital to form their own hospital to relieve British and French medical officers. Take a look inside the $30M renovation of Soldiers Memorial, set to reopen by Veterans Day Soon after the U.S. declared war with Germany, the St. Louis medical team shipped out in May 1917, becoming some of the first Americans to reach the European war zone. U.S. Army Base Hospital 21 was assigned to Rouen in the Normandy region of France as one of several hospitals formed by American medical schools to serve sick and injured soldiers and … [Read more...] about A St. Louis hospital opened in France during World War I
St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives
It started in a dusty and desolate corner of Kansas, as horror stories might. The deadly influenza virus that would be known as the mother of all outbreaks tore through Haskell County in the winter of 1918. The county doctor warned that young, sturdy hog farmers were collapsing in the fields as if they’d been shot. Historians believe that the flu soon reached Camp Funston at Fort Riley, where troops trained to fight World War I. By spring, flu outbreaks hit most of the Army camps across the country. Thousands of troops in effect carried germ warfare in their arsenal to European shores, and the pandemic took hold. The particular strain of influenza was most aggressive in healthy people ages 20 to 40, possibly because their strong immune systems overreacted to the invading virus. The 1918 Spanish flu got its name after King Alfonso of Spain, 32, fell ill that May. “It was working-age adults, people who were young and healthy suddenly getting sick and dying,” said Dr. … [Read more...] about St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives
St. Louis shut down and saved lives in 1918 flu pandemic
It started in a dusty and desolate corner of Kansas, as horror stories might. The deadly influenza virus that would be known as the mother of all outbreaks tore through Haskell County in the winter of 1918. The county doctor warned that young, sturdy hog farmers were collapsing in the fields as if they’d been shot. Historians believe that the flu soon reached Camp Funston at Fort Riley, where troops trained to fight World War I. By spring, flu outbreaks hit most of the Army camps across the country. Thousands of troops in effect carried germ warfare in their arsenal to European shores, and the pandemic took hold. The particular strain of influenza was most aggressive in healthy people ages 20 to 40, possibly because their strong immune systems overreacted to the invading virus. The 1918 Spanish flu got its name after King Alfonso of Spain, 32, fell ill that May. “It was working-age adults, people who were young and healthy suddenly getting sick and dying,” said Dr. … [Read more...] about St. Louis shut down and saved lives in 1918 flu pandemic