This is the same healthcare facility where a woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth late last year.
The Arizona Department of Health Services has reportedly announced its intention to revoke the license of a troubled medical facility for intellectually disabled patients that has been at the center of numerous, recent health code violations, including a shocking report from January revealing that an incapacitated woman was impregnated and had given birth while in the facility's care.
"The facility failed to implement policies and procedures related to allegations of abuse, neglect, mistreatment, and injuries of unknown origin," the report found."As a result, the facility placed... clients at increased risk for further neglect."uncovered a police investigation into a possible case of rape at the Phoenix facility after a woman in a vegetative state gave birth to a baby boy in late December.
In a subsequent inspection in April, state health officials reported that"there were no deficiencies cited."that staff at Hacienda discovered a"small number" of maggots on a patient, festering under a gauze bandage that had been placed near the patient's surgical incision.
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