One of the nurses who filed the lawsuit, Bernia Garner, lost part of her ear when the patient vaulted over the nurses station, knocked her to the ground, choked her and bite off part of her earlobe.
The patient also attacked nurse Karen Jolley-Arnold several days later while screaming that he was going to kill her, and repeatedly struck her in the leg, causing a debilitating wound. He jumped on Eloisa Panza during a night shift, knocking her to the ground and trying to bite her thigh. "There’s no real accountability," said James Beck, the lawyer representing the workers. "They tell the Legislature that they are properly responding to assaults based on reports by investigators, but nobody’s utilizing them."
After years of failing health and safety inspections, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stripped the hospital in 2018 of its, totaling $53 million a year. It also lost its accreditation with the Joint Commission. Neither has been restored.
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