Patients report suspicious activity in dialysis clinic (Part 3)

While the CDC suspects patients are being harmed intentionally, the clinic remains functioning with managers on high alert while they investigate further. Within days of the CDC doctor's assessment, two patients report suspicious activity. On April 28, Lurleen Hamilton, Linda hall were being dialyzed. They were already nervous, alert and scared because of the number of deaths. So they were paying attention. They started their treatment around 5:30 that morning. And Ms. Hall noticed a nurse was acting fidgety, a bit out of sorts. That's what first drew her attention. She watched as the nurse walked over to a bleach solution bucket on the floor and crouch down and draw up that solution into a syringe. From there she watched incredibly as that nurse walked over to another patient who was sleeping and then inject that solution into the lines. The nurse moved sneakily. She was trying to hide the fact that she'd done it. They didn't feel comfortable making an outcry because they were still hooked to machines, which that nurse had the responsibility of hooking, unhooking them from. Ms. Hamilton got the patient care tech that she trusted and told her what she'd seen. They were able to identify Kim Sainz as being the person that injected the bleach. The patient is immediately rushed to the hospital for treatment. As the clinic's administrators approach, Kimberly Clark signs a licensed vocational nurse on staff. They said, why don't you go home, take the rest of the day off. We've got a matter we need to look into. And so they sent Kimberly home. The administrators there secured where Ms. Hall and Hamilton said that they had seen Kim the nurse place the syringes. After she was finished with them, they did their own investigation of those two sharps containers. They opened them up. They found syringes which were not marked.