There are few places as necessary, and as highly dreaded, as a hospital. The need for medical care is an admission of one’s own mortality; we are most vulnerable.
Which is why patients put so much trust and faith in medical professionals and hospital administrators. Patients trust doctors and nurses, who have been trained, to treat patients with competence, care and respect. And they trust administrators to enforce policies that keep costs down and protect patients.
So when a hospital fails to report a nurse accused multiple times of sexual assault, the public has reason to pause.