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U.S. NEWS Thursday 12 april 2018

Nurse fired, arrested after patient dies at Texas hospital

By DAVID WARREN and case of assisted suicide. had worked as a pilot for their stable condition" and
JUAN A. LOZANO Online court and jail re- medical transport. He had died two days later of an
DALLAS (AP) — A former cords didn't list an attorney served in the U.S. Army embolism and other com-
nurse who was fired last for Davis, 34. The office of and had received several plications. The patient was
month from a Texas hospi- Taralynn Mackay, a lawyer awards. not under Davis' care and
tal has been charged with who had represented Davis The hospital approached he didn't mention to the pa-
murder in the death of a pa- earlier this year, said she's authorities in January "with tient's assigned nurse that
tient last year and will likely no longer representing him. concerns that a nurse may he intervened or document
face additional charges A GoFundMe account have been involved in it, according to the order.
for hurting other patients started by Davis says he's causing harm to patients," He's accused of going into
in six other cases, police raising money in an effort Toler said. "These patients other patients' rooms, once
announced Wednesday. to fight the state's suspen- were experiencing unex- in November and again in
William George Davis was sion of his license, an action plained symptoms incon- January, and taking "un-
being held on a $2 million that he contends was due sistent with their treatment necessary and/or inappro-
bond after he was arrested to "misunderstandings." The and recovery." priate" actions that led two
Tuesday evening in the Au- campaign on Wednesday In an order issued last patients to fall into vegeta- This undated photo provid-
gust death of 47-year-old had raised more than half month that suspended Da- tive conditions. He wasn't ed by the Smith County Jail
Christopher Greenaway. of his goal of $10,000.The vis' license, The Texas Board assigned to care for either shows William George Davis.
Associated Press
Police say aggravated as- seven cases connected to of Nursing said the ex-nurse patient. When questioned
sault charges could also be Davis date back to June entered three patients' by administrators following kilometers) southeast of
filed against Davis. 2017 and all took place rooms at the Owen Heart the January incident, Davis Dallas, said in a statement
At a news conference, Ty- at the hospital where he Hospital, part of Christus said he "silenced an IV that that Davis began working
ler police chief Jimmy Toler worked, Toler said. Mother Frances Hospital, was beeping," pumped up for the system in 2013. Toler
declined to offer details Davis was not being coop- and "performed an inter- a pressure bag and took said that prior to coming to
on what authorities allege erative with investigators vention" that either killed or other actions, according to Christus, Davis had worked
Davis did to Greenaway or and did not have a criminal critically harmed them. The his suspension order. at another hospital for two
other patients at Christus record, Toler said. An initial hospital fired Davis in Feb- A spokesman for the Board years. Toler didn't offer any
Mother Frances Hospital in court appearance for Da- ruary. of Nursing said he couldn't information on where that
Tyler or if he targeted any vis was not immediately set. The suspension order immediately discuss the on- hospital was located.
of the individuals. Greenaway was described doesn't specify what Da- going Davis investigation. An investigation began in
Tyler police spokeswoman in his obituary as a pilot vis is alleged to have done Christus Trinity Mother Fran- January when administra-
Jenny Wells later said that and a decorated veteran. to a patient on Aug. 4, but ces Health System, which tors identified "an unusual
there are "not any indica- He was born in Colum- says "the patient immedi- includes Owen Heart Hos- and unexplained patient
tions" that this could be a bia, South Carolina, and ately deteriorated from pital about 100 miles (160 outcome."q

Murder charges could hinder water park's debt repayment

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — payment," The Kansas City been receiving STAR bond
Criminal indictments stem- Star reports. incentives that allow devel-
ming from the decapita- The filing is the first pub- opers pay off certain costs
tion of a 10-year-old boy lic indication that the in- by capturing state and lo-
on a slide at a Kansas wa- dictments could imperil cal sales taxes generated
ter park could hurt owner Schlitterbahn's business. by a project.
Schlitterbahn's chances of EPR Properties said if Schlit- The Kansas Commerce De-
repaying a $174.3 million terbahn defaults on the partment, which approves
loan balance, the mort- Kansas mortgage, it could STAR bonds, is studying the
gage lender has warned. restructure the mortgage Schlitterbahn situation "and
EPR Properties, the Kansas loan or foreclose on collat- considering whether and
City-based real estate in- eral that secured the loan. to what extent the current
vestment trust that holds That collateral includes the legal proceedings will im-
the mortgage on the Kan- Kansas property as well as pact future decisions," said
sas attraction, said Monday properties in New Braun- Kevin Doel, a department In this July 9, 2014 file photo, riders are propelled by jets of water
in a filing with the Securities fels and South Padre Island spokesman. as they go over a hump while riding a water slide called "Ver-
ruckt" at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan.
and Exchange Commission in Texas. EPR's filing also The indictments name Tex- Associated Press
that the March indictments warned that the indict- as-based Schlitterbahn, its
could hurt attendance at ments could prompt Kan- co-owner Jeff Henry, the The most serious charge is riding with Caleb also were
Schlitterbahn's water parks sas to delay or refuse to ap- construction company that second-degree murder in injured when their raft went
and "may negatively im- prove future development built the 17-story Verruckt the 2016 death of Caleb airborne. The park is due to
pact the likelihood of re- incentives. The project has slide and two other people. Schwab. Two other women open May 25.q