Hospital Outsourced Background Check Of Convicted Surgical Tech

DENVER (CBS4) – Swedish Medical Center outsourced the background check on its former surgical tech who is serving time in federal prison for taking the painkiller fentanyl from patients, CBS4 has learned.
Swedish hired Rocky Allen, the technician, in spite of his history of addiction and drug thefts.
Rocky Allen (credit: CBS)
The background check was done by a company called PreCheck, which is based in Houston. Attorneys for former patients say PreCheck missed that Allen had been cour