Hours after the hearing, Millicent Tidwell, acting deputy director of licensing and certification for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs said Morningside is not licensed to perform residential in-patient rehab or addiction treatment and lacked the appropriate license to provide residential treatment or recovery programs.
In two years the new stent went into some 7, 600 patients--and malfunctions occurred in more than 2, 600 of the cases, leading to 12 patient deaths, the Justice Department says.