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Patient sues hospital after alleged sex assault
Healthcare Security Weekly, September 22, 2008
A patient, who says she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a nursing assistant in a hospital elevator, has filed suit.
The female patient filed suit September 2 against the Centennial Hill Hospital in Las Vegas, its parent company, a nursing staffing agency, and the man charged in the assault, reported the Las Vegas Sun. The lawsuit charges the organizations with negligence, false imprisonment, emotional distress, and assault and battery, the newspaper reported.
The worker, who was a contracted nursing assistant at the time of the alleged assault, is awaiting trail on 10 charges, including three charges of sexual assault, the newspaper reported. The man was a nursing assistant hired by American Nursing Services, a supplemental nursing staffing agency contracted by the hospital. He was arrested May 16, the day after the woman, who was sedated, said she was assaulted in an elevator while being transported in a hospital bed from the emergency department to her hospital room.
The lawsuit charges the defendants with negligence for an alleged lack of security cameras. The suit also accuses defendants of not providing sufficient security personnel, failure to supervise hospital staff, failure to screen or hire qualified employees and independent contractors, and failure to train staff, according to the newspaper.
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