{"id":22015,"date":"2016-04-01T21:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T04:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22015"},"modified":"2016-04-01T21:42:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T04:42:38","slug":"fbi-frisco-hospice-owner-directed-nurses-overdose-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22015","title":{"rendered":"FBI: Frisco Hospice Owner Directed Nurses to Overdose Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>TEXAS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to make this patient go bye-bye,&#8221; executive is quoted as saying<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Scott Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=373938001&amp;videoID=cMmMa5e8afg2&amp;origin=nbcdfw.com&amp;sec=news&amp;subsec=local&amp;width=600&amp;height=360\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The owner of a North Texas medical company regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by NBC 5.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Brad Harris, 34, founded Novus Health Care Services, Inc., in July 2012, according to state records. The Novus office is located on Dallas Parkway in Frisco.<\/p>\n<p>Frisco Hospice Sued Employees Who Left After FBI Raid<\/p>\n<p>Harris, an accountant, instructed a nurse to administer overdoses to three patients and directed another employee to increase a patient&#8217;s medication to four-times the maximum allowed, the FBI said. He allegedly sent text messages like, &#8220;You need to make this patient go bye-bye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the first case, the employee refused to follow Harris&#8217; alleged instructions, according to the FBI affidavit. The document does not say whether the other three patients were actually harmed.<\/p>\n<p>Frisco Hospice Sued Employees Who Left After FBI Raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a North Texas medical company regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by NBC 5.<br \/>\nExecutive Brad Harris, 34, founded Novus Health Care Services, Inc., in July 2012, according to state records. 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