Henrico Doctors’ Hospital has not done enough to contain infections in its troubled neonatal intensive-care unit and had not paid sufficient attention to reports and video that indicated vulnerable newborns were handled too roughly, state inspectors found.
Their 97-page report came from investigations that followed a mid-December finding that newborns in the NICU were in immediate jeopardy.
That Child Protective Services investigation led to the suspension of two nurses, but they were reinstated last year.
After more babies suffered fractures, one of those nurses, Erin Strotman, was arrested and now faces 12 counts of child abuse and malicious wounding of five infants.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
