Washington Medical Commission Opens Investigation Into Confluence Health Doctor After DUI Arrest
The state agency began the investigation after a whistleblower lodged a complaint because they believe the local paper won't hold Confluence doctors accountable
The Washington State Medical Commission launched an investigation into Confluence Health Neurologist Dr. Shannon Grosdidier after a whistleblower lodged an official complaint about the physician after her hit-and-run and DUI arrest in Wenatchee last October.
Prior to the arrest, Grosdidier hit Jessica Richardson in her truck at the intersection of Grant Road and WA-285 in East Wenatchee. Richardson said she was sitting at the intersection at a red light when Grosdidier took too wide of a turn and rammed into the front of her vehicle. They locked eyes, Grosdidier put her foot down on the gas pedal and pushed Richardson and her truck backward until her dark SUV was free and then sped off toward Wenatchee, according to Richardson in an interview this week.
You can listen to that here:
According to police reports, Grosdidier also ran her vehicle up onto a sidewalk and collided with a fence in South Wenatchee after she had fled the scene of the first hit-and-run. She was stopped by Wenatchee Police near Wenatchee High School and arrested.
During that arrest, Grosdidier spit on a Wenatchee Police officer. It was recorded on a WPD bodycam and can be located at 8:51 in the video above.
The high-profile arrest was not covered by the local newspaper, The Wenatchee World, and according to the whistleblower that’s because the World handles Confluence with kid gloves.
“Our local paper is cozy with the clinic and won’t print this,” they wrote. “I was hoping the doctor would be compelled to go to treatment. I just hate (sic) of patients being treated by an impaired doctor.”
I did cover it at the time, and now there have been new developments in the case.
Documents obtained from the medical commission by public records request show the original complaint as well as Grosdidier’s response – among other things.