Lean staffing, lax hiring, training flaws: Why sexual assaults at hospitals are up

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Last year was the first in which a category that includes assault, rape, sexual assault and homicide was among the top five patient safety events reported by hospitals, according to a recent report.

After fainting on the job with a low hemoglobin count in early January 2021, Lenna Ray, then 67, went to HCA Florida Citrus Hospital in Inverness, Florida, for care. Ray was moved to a private room in the emergency department where, over the next four hours, Hiram Bonilla, a male nurse, repeatedly sexually assaulted her, court and police records show.

“He was putting stickers on my chest for an EKG and he said, ‘You got pretty titties,’” Ray recalled in an interview with NBC News. “By the time he finished that statement, he was on me.”

Hospital video reviewed by NBC News shows Bonilla entered Ray’s room 28 times over those four hours, every nine minutes on average…

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