Marchand v. Hope

CourtDistrict Court, D. Colorado
DecidedMarch 24, 2025
Docket1:23-cv-00391
StatusUnknown

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Opinion

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO

Civil Action No. 1:23-cv-00391-SBP

JASON CHARLES MARCHAND,

Plaintiff,

v.

NURSE HOPE,

Defendant.

ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT Susan Prose, United States Magistrate Judge

This matter is before the court on Defendant Hope Bonner’s motion for summary judgment. ECF No. 53 (“Motion” or “Motion for Summary Judgment”). Pro se Plaintiff Jason Charles Marchand did not respond to the Motion. The undersigned presides with the parties’ unanimous consent pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(1). ECF Nos. 13, 22; ECF No. 24 (order of reference). Having carefully reviewed the Motion, Mr. Marchand’s relevant submissions on the court docket, and the applicable law, the court finds that oral argument would not materially assist in the disposition of the Motion. For the reasons that follow, the court respectfully GRANTS the Motion. BACKGROUND I. Undisputed Facts As an initial matter, Mr. Marchand’s failure to respond to the Motion allows the court to accepts as true all material facts asserted and properly supported in the Motion. Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(e)(2) (“If a party fails to properly support an assertion of fact or fails to properly address another party’s assertion of fact as required by Rule 56(c), the court may . . . consider the fact undisputed for purposes of the motion[.]”) (emphasis added); Beard v. Banks, 548 U.S. 521, 527 (2006) (“[B]y failing specifically to challenge the facts identified in the defendant’s statement of undisputed facts, [the plaintiff] is deemed to have admitted the validity of the facts[.]”).1 However, in deference to Mr. Marchand’s pro se status, and to ensure a complete record, the court has evaluated whether the factual assertions in the operative pleading—which Mr. Marchand has verified pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, see Amended Complaint, ECF No. 8 at 8— demonstrate any genuine dispute of material fact that requires a trial. Therefore, for purposes of the Motion, the court draws from the record the following

material facts, which it construes in Mr. Marchand’s favor, and which are undisputed unless otherwise noted: At all times relevant to the Amended Complaint, Mr. Marchand was a pretrial detainee at the Larimer County Jail, where Ms. Bonner worked as a medical assistant. Motion 2, Statement of Undisputed Facts ¶ 1. Although Mr. Marchand refers to Medical Assistant Bonner as a “nurse,” see Am. Compl. ¶ 1, it is undisputed that she is an unlicensed medical assistant.2 See

1 The docket shows that Mr. Marchand received a copy of the Motion for Summary Judgment. See ECF No. 56-1 (receipt of mailing filed by Ms. Bonner). The court further notes that, on November 25, 2024, the court’s mail to Mr. Marchand at the Lincoln Correctional Center in Lincoln, Nebraska (his current address of record in this case) was returned with a forwarding address in Indiana. ECF No. 63. While Mr. Marchand is required to apprise the court of his current address, see D.C.COLO.LCivR. 5.1(c), the court’s mail to Mr. Marchand’s forwarding address in Indiana was not returned. ECF No. 64. It thus appears that the court has Mr. Marchand’s current address, at least as of late November 2024. 2 Ms. Greengard notes that Ms. Bonner is a “CMA.” Certified medical assistants are not licensed Affidavit of Renee Greengard, ECF No. 53-2 ¶ 2.3

On November 16, 2022, Medical Assistant Bonner administered a tuberculin skin test (“TB skin test”) to Mr. Marchand. Id. ¶ 6; Am. Compl. at 4. In Medical Assistant Bonner’s notes of her encounter with Mr. Marchand on that date, she recorded that, prior to administering the TB skin test, she conducted a “TB Risk Assessment and Screening.” Statement of Undisputed Facts ¶ 2 (citing ECF No. 53-1 at 1). Medical Assistant Bonner wrote that Mr. Marchand reported no prior history of tuberculous infection, although he did report that he had had a positive TB skin test at some point in the past. See id. ¶¶ 2, 6, 11 (citing ECF No. 53-1 at 1-5). Medical Assistant Bonner also recorded that, by Mr. Marchand’s self-report, he previously had an “abnormal” chest x-ray that resulted in some type of unidentified treatment for a period of six

months. ECF No. 53-1 at 1-2. Mr. Marchand states in the Amended Complaint that he told Medical Assistant Bonner he could not receive a TB skin test, that he had a history of “prior allergic reactions to the injection,” that he is “prone to staph infections,” and that he needed to be given a chest x-ray in lieu of a tuberculin skin test. Am. Compl. at 4. According to Mr. Marchand, Medical Assistant Bonner told him “it was policy and standard protocol and injected me with the Tuberculin

in Colorado. See DORA Document Management Services - Division of Professions and Occupations Public Documents (“license types” do not identify certified medical assistants), last accessed on March 24, 2025. The court may take judicial notice of the contents of a government agency’s website. See, e.g., N.M. ex rel. Richardson v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 565 F.3d 683, 702 n.22 (10th Cir. 2009) (taking judicial notice of information on “[t]he websites of two federal agencies”); Tatten v. City & Cnty. of Denver, 730 F. App’x 620, 624 n.2 (10th Cir. 2018) (taking judicial notice of information on state bar’s website, citing N.M. ex rel. Richardson). 3 Ms. Greengard, an expert retained by Medical Assistant Bonner, is an advanced practice registered nurse and a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Greengard Affidavit ¶ 3. anyway.” Id.4 Mr. Marchand presented no evidence showing that he refused the test, and Medical

Assistant Bonner did not record in his medical record that the test was refused. Later in the morning of November 16, 2022, after Mr. Marchand had received the TB skin test, he was seen by Traci Alvarado, an Advanced Registered Nurse Practioner, for a “health assessment.” Statement of Undisputed Facts ¶ 3. Ms. Alvarado recorded that, at that time, Mr. Marchand reported no known medication allergies. Id. ¶¶ 3-5. However, at some point on or before November 26, 2022, “tuberculin” was listed as an allergy in Mr. Marchand’s medical records. ECF No. 53-1 at 5. On December 1, 2022, approximately two weeks after the administration of the TB skin test, Mr. Marchand was taken to the emergency department at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort

Collins, Colorado, for evaluation of a skin ulcer and arm pain. ECF No. 53-1 at 6. The physician who evaluated Mr. Marchand recorded that Mr. Marchand had ‘TB test placed about 3 weeks ago as he entered jail. States that he always has a positive skin test and he is supposed to have a chest x-ray. The person placed in the test stated that it was policy and [placed it] anyway.” Id. The physician recorded that Mr. Marchand’s skin at the administration site had “blistered and then broke open,” prompting prison medical personnel to place him “on topical antibiotics as well as 2 antibiotics for skin infection.” Id. Mr. Marchand was brought to the emergency department because he was experiencing “a small ulcer in the area” of the injection site and was “beginning to have pain of his left forearm and [unidentified Jail officials] were concerned of the possibility of abscess formation.” Id.

4 The Motion does not address these statements by Mr. Marchand. The emergency department physician included in his differential diagnosis for Mr.

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