Legal proceedings about Emily Jerry triggered noise & public awareness
A February 26, 2006, Cleveland, Ohio, pharmacist’s error in mixing medication for two year old Emily Jerry took her life. Criminal prosecution of the pharmacist has generated detailed newspaper reports.
Jesse C. Vivian, BS Pharm, JD
Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Wayne State University
Here is a sobering thought. A pharmacist makes a mistake. The error results in the death of a patient, and the pharmacist is charged with negligent homicide. He is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and faces up to 5 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000. Of course, his pharmacist license is revoked and chances are he will never work in the profession again. His crime? He did not check the accuracy of calculations used by a pharmacy technician under his charge to compound the concentration of sodium chloride in a prescription for a cancer chemotherapy solution.
The Emily Jerry Foundation has recently received the following letter of approval from the IRS notifying us our Non-Profit status has been approved! We are very excited and thankful. For all our generous donors out there, this should… Read More
Willoughby resident Christopher Jerry has started a foundation aimed at increasing awareness and preventing medical errors like the one that killed Emily, his 2-year-old daughter. Click here to read the full article…
CLEVELAND, OHIO ─ Nearly four years after the loss of Christopher Jerry’s two-year-old daughter, Emily, the anguish over her accidental death lingers on. Now, as the head of a non-profit foundation working to prevent medical errors, Jerry is entering the new year with a renewed sense of purpose promoting an all-new life-saving technology in honor of Emily. Read the full article…
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Chris Jerry still hears the screams of his 2-year-old daughter, Emily, after a medical mistake put her into agonizing pain and led to her death three years ago.
His grief was overwhelming, but it drove him to give meaning to Emily’s death, suffered at the hands of a pharmacy technician who mistakenly gave the toddler a fatal dose of saline solution. Read the full article at cleveland.com.
Triv was gracious enough to help promote The Emily Jerry Foundation and we can’t thank him enough for the support. Click the link below to listen to the interview in mp3 format.
A former Cleveland area pharmacist got jail time in connection with the death of a toddler.
41-year-old Eric Cropp has been sentenced to six months in jail, six months of house arrest and three years probation in the death of 2-year-old Emily Jerry.
Read the full article here.
The Emily Jerry Foundation is determined to help make our nation’s, world renowned, medical facilities safer for everyone, beginning with our babies and children. We are accomplishing this very important objective by focusing on increasing public awareness of key patient safety related issues and identifying technology and best practices that are proven to minimize the “human error” component of medicine. Through our ongoing efforts The Emily Jerry Foundation is working hard to save lives every day.
Posted: March 28, 2010 by ejfadmin
Hudson Hub Times: Family's efforts helped make trip to pharmacy safer
March 28, 2010
by Laura Freeman, reporter
Everyone makes mistakes. I routinely check my take-out orders before leaving a restaurant and check my receipt for the sale price before leaving a store, much to my husband’s embarrassment. Recently, two mistakes at a local pharmacy made me thankful there are people like the Jerrys who fight for all of us.
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