An alarming increase in sudden cardiac arrest events for a hospital that historically averaged one occurred in the five months that a respiratory therapist was at Hedrick Medical Center.
Nine of the patients died and the other nine recovered. Hall was charged with murder this month in the death of 75-year-old Fern Franco.
The Livingston County Prosecuting Attorney said that Franco died of lethal doses of a drug and a pain killer. The prosecutor didn't say why the investigation took a decade.
Matt O'Connor, Hall's attorney, said that she didn't have access to any drugs while she was a respiratory therapist. He said that Hall became a scapegoat for the deaths at Hedrick because she was acquitted of an arson conviction.
It is not clear if Hall will face additional murder charges. Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.
Aprille Franco wants investigators to get to the bottom of the other deaths.
They have been waiting for answers for 20 years. It's up to my grandma to find answers.
Hall is in jail. O'Connor said he would seek a bond so Hall could get treatment for leukemia.
She started working at Hedrick in 2001. The small hospital is located in a town of 9,100 people.
During Hall's brief time at Hedrick, sudden cardiac collapse incidents rose alarmingly, according to a probable cause statement.
Scott Lindley, the county coroner, said that hospital officials did everything in the world to cover up the concerns about Hall. There was no criminal investigation at the time.
The hospital and the company that now operates it were named in a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit was thrown out by the Missouri Supreme Court because the statute of limitations had expired.
The health system took over operation of Hedrick more than a year after the deaths.
We look forward to a final resolution of the investigation and are interested in the truth.
Warren opened the investigation in 2012 because he didn't believe that a thorough investigation had ever been completed.
People of different ages and levels of health died.
Two days after he was admitted for evaluation of high temperatures, vomiting and agitation, World War II veteran Charles O'Hara died. Coval Gann was a retired agent.
DavidHarper was just 37 years old. The lawsuit said he was about to be discharged after being hospitalized with pneumonia. He passed away on March 20, 2002.
The 49-year-old woman died on March 9, 2002, a day away from going home after being treated for pneumonia.
The lawsuit said that the deaths of the other people were caused by natural causes. Helen was puzzled by that. He was healthy and active despite smoking.
It seemed really suspicious. The person was doing well.
Franco was hospitalized with pneumonia. The probable cause statement states that Hall and another staff member found her dead.
Hall's victim was a sick, defenseless elderly woman who depended on Hall to care for her physical ailment in a medical facility. He said that Franco died from suffocation and that he was fully conscious.
Hall was put on administrative leave three days after Franco died.
The patient deaths did not lead to Hall's firing. O'Connor said she was fired from the hospital after learning she had been convicted of setting a fire at another hospital. She spent a year in jail after being acquitted at a re trial after being free on appeal.
O'Connor said it was "incomprehensible" that Hall would be blamed for a crime she didn't commit.
It is a nightmare to go through it once.
Hall is a small hospital with a small staff.
Twenty years after the death of her younger sister, Pittman wasn't ready to pass judgement, but she does want investigators to keep looking into her sister's death.
It's hard for me to believe that people can be mean.
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Rhonda Shafner is from New York.
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