Wednesday, December 21, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Last hurrah...
No charges in hospital
death of Sisters woman
There will be no crimi-
nal charges associated with
the medical error that killed
Loretta Macpherson of
Sisters at St. Charles Medical
Center in Bend in December
2014.
“After a thorough review
of the facts of this case,
and a consideration of the
steps St. Charles has taken
to ensure a tragedy like this
never happens again, I con-
cluded that forgoing the ini-
tiation of criminal charges
was in the interest of jus-
tice,” said Deschutes County
District Attorney John
Hummel.
Hummel met numerous
times over the past two years
with St. Charles administra-
tors and particularly focused
on St. Charles’ implementa-
tion of the recommendations
made to St. Charles by the
Institute for Safe Medication
Practices.
In December 2014,
Macpherson was recuperat-
ing at home after undergo-
ing successful brain sur-
gery in Seattle. Her fam-
ily took her to St. Charles
because she was feeling
anxious and her family
wanted to be sure the medi-
cations she was taking were
correct and determine if
she needed more medica-
tion. Staff determined that
she would benefit from
being given an anti-seizure
medication.
Macpherson was given
the wrong drug. The incor-
rect drug that was adminis-
tered is called Rocuronium,
which is a paralytic used
in surgery. Macpherson
went into cardiac arrest,
suffered irreparable brain
damage and died two days
later.
PHOTO BY JEFF OMODT
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