A former employee of the Fulton County Hospital is facing 84 felony charges for forging prescriptions to get herself a weight loss medicine. Arrested for the multiple incidents was 40-year-old Jennifer Lynn Cooper of Salem.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Arkansas State Police, in April of this year, an administrator from Baxter Health in Mountain Home, which is managing the hospital in Salem, reached out to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to report the Fulton County Hospital’s E-System site, which doctors use to call in prescriptions for patients, was being used by an unauthorized person.
The person had filled 58 prescriptions by the same doctor, but that doctor does not use the system, he still hand writes prescriptions. The discrepancy was found when a new cloud based system was installed but the doctor was still signing in writing prescriptions for Cooper.
When law enforcement executed a search warrant at Cooper’s residence, she admitted she had been forging prescriptions for about six months.
Cooper is facing 42 felony charges of forgery and 42 felony charges of an unlawful act involving electronic mail. She is free from the Baxter County Detention Center after posting $10,000 bond.
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