Sounds possible....
When my second husband was in the hospital, the HLC was called in. They decided to wait until his blood count got to a ridiculously low level... and then they would arrange for him to be given something. I have no idea now what it even was. Fortunately his count stabilized and he didn't need what they were going to... "OK"... for him to have.
So, yeah they had something in the works.
Cas