PHOENIX—An embattled Phoenix long-term care facility where an incapacitated woman was raped and later gave birth has received an Arizona license to operate, the latest step in an effort to overhaul its image and operations by relinquishing oversight to the state. The Arizona Department of Health Services last week approved the license for Hacienda HealthCare […]
An Arizona care facility that was thrown into the national spotlight when an incapacitated woman gave birth after being raped will remain open under state control. Hacienda Healthcare said on Feb. 7 that the Phoenix facility would be shut down. “After careful consideration, the board of directors have come to understand that it is simply not […]
The Arizona facility where an incapacitated woman was raped, impregnated, and gave birth is shutting down, Hacienda HealthCare, the company that runs the facility, will shut down. The company announced the closure in a statement on Feb. 7. The December 2018 birth left nurses and other employees shocked as they had no idea the woman […]
A male nurse who allegedly raped an incapacitated woman in an Arizona care facility pleaded not guilty on Feb. 5. Nathan Sutherland, 36, was linked to the crime through a DNA sample he was forced to take via a court order that the Phoenix Police Department obtained after the 29-year-old victim gave birth in December […]
The male nurse who allegedly raped and impregnated an incapacitated woman was indicted on Jan. 29 on charges of sexual assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult. A grand jury indicted Nathan Sutherland following his Jan. 23 arrest, one month after the woman gave birth to a baby boy at a Hacienda HealthCare facility in […]
A nurse who for years worked closely with Nathan Sutherland, the male nurse accused of raping and impregnating an incapacitated woman he cared for, said that she was shocked after his arrest was made public. Eleanor Riggers, a licensed practical nurse worked as a respiratory therapist at Hacienda HealthCare for 11 years, worked closely with Sutherland to […]
A male nurse who worked at Hacienda Healthcare in Arizona was arrested on Jan. 23 in the rape of an incapacitated woman who shocked staff at a Phoenix facility by giving birth just after Christmas. Phoenix officials confirmed in a press conference on Wednesday that an arrest had been made, following a weeks-long investigation that […]
PHOENIX—A long-term care facility where an Arizona woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth said on Jan. 18, that it’s investigating another patient’s allegation of physical abuse. Hacienda HealthCare officials said in a news release that the female patient accused a registered nurse and a certified caregiver, both women, of abuse. The […]
Three family members visited the vegetative woman who gave birth in an Arizona facility just days before the birth and didn’t notice the woman was pregnant, according to a report. A source from the Hacienda Healthcare facility, who wasn’t identified but was seen from behind, told KPHO that the victim’s family visited her during Christmastime. […]
The baby born to a woman in a vegetative state in Arizona nearly died, police said in an update. The Phoenix Police Department revealed the near-death in a press conference on Jan. 9. It was the first time police gave details about the case, which has attracted nationwide attention. The 29-year-old Native American woman, who […]
PHOENIX —An Arizona woman in a vegetative state who was sexually assaulted at a long-term care facility and had a baby is recovering at a hospital along with her child, authorities said Jan. 9. Commenting for the first time on the investigation since the Dec. 29 birth came to light, Phoenix police said finding a […]
The Phoenix Police Department served a search warrant to obtain DNA samples from male staff members at Hacienda Healthcare, where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth on Dec. 29, 2018. The warrant on Jan. 8 was part of the department’s probe into how the woman got pregnant, according to a press release from […]
The family of a woman in a vegetative state who gave birth in December 2018, prompting a sexual assault investigation, has spoken out for the first time. “The family obviously is outraged, traumatized and in shock by the abuse and neglect of their daughter at Hacienda Healthcare,” the family’s attorney John Micheaels said in a […]
The woman in a vegetative state who gave birth in December 2018, prompting a sexual assault investigation, was raped multiple times, according to a new report. The woman was raped several times, reported KPHO. The woman has not been named but was identified as a 29-year-old Native American woman. She has been in a vegetative […]
The CEO of Hacienda HealthCare has resigned as an investigation into how a woman in a vegetative state for over a decade became pregnant continues. The unnamed woman gave birth at a Hacienda facility in Phoenix in late December 2018, leaving staff members stunned. Several days later, police opened an investigation. According to KPHO, which […]
