TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa oral surgeon at the center of a public health scare signed an agreement every three years with the state to provide safe care to locked-up juveniles but apparently violated it.
A copy of the contract provided to The Associated Press on Friday by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority shows that Dr. W. Scott Harrington was required to keep clean equipment, properly train assistants and develop a safety policy to prevent communicable diseases.
In March, authorities urged Harrington's roughly 7,000 patients to get tested after finding unsanitary conditions at his two Tulsa-area clinics, including varying cleaning procedures for equipment, needles re-inserted in drug vials after their initial use, drug vials used on multiple patients and no written infection-protection procedure.
Harrington's attorney did not return a message seeking comment Friday.