1 dead, 2 seriously injured after 3-vehicle crash in St. Clair County
Updated Feb 22, 2021;
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BURTCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, MI The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a three-vehicle crash that left one man dead and two people hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
The crash occurred at approximately 6:40 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21 at the 6500 block of Lakeshore Road in Burtchville Township, according to a sheriff’s department news release. Burtchville Township is about 12 miles north of Port Huron in St. Clair County.
A 1997 Ford F150 pick-up was northbound on Lakeshore Road when the driver attempted to pass a pick-up truck pulling a trailer in a no passing zone, the sheriff’s department preliminary investigation indicates, according to the news release. While attempting to pass the truck with a trailer, the F150 collided head-on with a southbound 2014 Lincoln.
A case of the British variant of the coronavirus has been confirmed in the Blue Water area. State health officials Monday confirmed to the Detroit News that there are now 45 total cases of the B-1-1-7 variant in the state, including one new confirmed case in Sanilac County. Dr. John Brooks is an infectious disease specialist at McLaren Port Huron hospital. He tells WPHM the more the virus continues to change, the less likely it is to totally go away. "This is a natural thing that any virus or bacteria is going to do over time," said Brooks. "When they (viruses) are put under pressure. eventually they're going to change and adapt." Brooks says the new variant isn't necessarily more deadly but it is more contagious. The variant was first detected in Michigan in the Ann Arbor area in mid-January.
McLaren agrees to $7.75 million settlement on opioid drug diversion charges
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McLaren Health Care Corp., a 14-hospital health system based in Grand Blanc, has agreed to a $7.75 million civil settlement over the health system s handling of controlled substances in its retail pharmacy program, federal officials said Tuesday.
The settlement resolved allegations that McLaren violated certain provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act, according to a statement from U.S. attorneys Andrew Birge in the Western Michigan District and Matthew Schneider in the Eastern Michigan District.
It ended an investigation over several years in which employees at multiple McLaren facilities in Michigan were alleged to have diverted drugs from about 2014 to 2019 and violated federal laws, officials said.
McLaren agrees to pay record $7.75M settlement over drug diversion allegations
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
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PORT HURON, MI McLaren Health Care Corporation will pay the United States the nation’s largest settlement of its kind for allegations of drug diversion at a health care system.
The United States Attorneys’ Offices for the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan announced Tuesday, Jan. 19, McLaren Health Care Corporation (MHCC) agreed to pay the United States $7.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated certain provisions of the Controlled Substances Act, according to a U.S. Attorneys’ Office news release.
The government alleged that McLaren Port Huron Pharmacy and McLaren Yale Pharmacy in the Eastern District of Michigan dispensed Schedule II drugs without written prescriptions and despite “red flags” that those drugs were being diverted by the MHCC’s pharmacist who were in charge. The government further alleged that several MHCC facilitie