The legislation comes after a healthcare crisis in New Hampshire, when an employee at Exeter (N.H.) Hospital was charged with stealing painkillers and replacing them with syringes filled with saline. Those syringes were allegedly tainted with the employee’s blood and used on patients, resulting in 44 people being infected with some strain of hepatitis C.
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