A woman who was sexually assaulted by another patient at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in April 2015 has filed a lawsuit against the hospital, which she claims failed to protect her, according to KSTP-TV.
Cindy Jarvi was in her bed when a patient experiencing heroin withdrawal and hallucinations entered her room and began forcibly touching her. Ms. Jarvi alleges that she wanted to report the incident to the police, but nurses told her it was against hospital policy.
A subsequent investigation by the U.S. Department of Human Services found the hospital did not provide adequate supervision for high-risk patients, such as the individual that assaulted Ms. Jarvi. Eighteen months after Ms. Jarvi’s assault, another patient was sexually assaulted in the hospital by an unsupervised, high-risk patient.
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