re: Nurse arrested in sexual assault of woman in vegetative state who gave birth

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The victim’s family said that reports that the woman is in a vegetative state are inaccurate, she has severe intellectual problems but has the ability to move

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What does that mean? Ability to move as in walk around and feed herself? Is she cognizant of her surroundings?? This sounds worse than a vegetative state.

I’m glad they caught the guy. The way that facility is set up.....there isn’t a way to really track down any visitors. From what I’ve been told you can visit 24/7 there. If a visitor had been the rapist....I don’t see how they would have caught him.

And people may be quick to say “they should shut that facility down”....the sad truth is that many of the patients there.....would have no where else to go if that happened.

There's no telling how many times this sick POS has done this.

She is not on life support

ETA: per some of the articles....this is from her family

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They described her as intellectually disabled because of seizures in early childhood. While she doesn't speak, she has some mobility in her limbs, head and neck. She also responds to sound and can make facial gestures.

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Yeah CEO jumped ship immediately. One doctor was suspended and another resigned.

I’m sure they will do a very thorough investigation. Local news article mentioned something about this facility being in some sort of trouble in the past.

without any prenatal care or nutrition and being on meds I can see this being possible, since we dont know the birth weight of the baby. The thing I question is what effects being bed ridden has on the menstrual cycle of a fertile female. Obviously if she's ovulating then there has to be some sort of period, but being bed ridden for that length of time has probably caused some pretty severe muscle atrophy, maybe enough to the point that she was just spotting instead of a full period? I dont understand why they werent tracking those, and if they were how they didnt get alarmed over the fact that she hadn't had one in nine months, even if there was no reason to suspect pregnancy they should have at least gotten her a consult with a gyno for the missed periods.
It's an incredibly horrible thing that he did this to her, but it also seems to shed some light on some patient neglect that was happening as well, which is probably why these individuals are jumping ship so quickly.

does leaving the company leave them more venerable to malpractice suits than they would have been had they stayed and been umbrella'd under the corporation, which will obviously being getting sued before its over?

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does leaving the company leave them more venerable to malpractice suits than they would have been had they stayed and been umbrella'd under the corporation, which will obviously being getting sued before its over?

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I am sure a corporate officer in that industry carries liability insurance as well as the facility/company. They get sued frequently in that business. I would think physicians carry insurance as well. The carriers will be ones paying out.

Of course, this is such an egregious case of malpractice and patient safety, the responsible parties may not survive it: The liability could bankrupt the company and force a merger and would think the docs. will face tough scrutiny from licensing authorities. Its going to be bad.

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I’m sure that rigorous work schedule also yields a very impressive paycheck too.

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You should probably just stop while you're behind.

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I’m sure that rigorous work schedule also yields a very impressive paycheck too.

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Actually it does. Sorry you’re overworked and poor.