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Whistleblower In San Diego Hospice Case May Net Seven Figures

Published on Fri Sep 12, 2014

A whistleblower who filed suit against now defunct San Diego Hospice may receive as much as a million dollars as her reward, reports San Diego State’s inewsource. Lori Rachac, a registered nurse who was fired from the hospice in 2011, alleged in her qui tam suit that staff were encouraged to find creative ways to admit people into care who [...]
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