FAULTY EMT TEST-SCORING DEVICE FOUND POOR RECORD-KEEPING ALLOWED MACHINE TO OPERATE FOR 3 YEARS.(City Desk/Local) From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: March 13, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News

A testing machine malfunctioned for three years, allowing 13 Colorado emergency medical technicians and one paramedic who failed the exam to keep working, the state health department said Friday.

"The record-keeping in that division was atrocious," Douglas Benevento, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said. "There was sloppy work, sloppy quality assurance of the machine."

Two employees responsible for running the tests have been put on administrative leave with pay pending results ...

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