For months two managers at Dayton Children’s Hospital raised concerns that top administrators may be violating the hospital’s own policies and putting children at risk by not informing police about two allegations of sexual misconduct against a local doctor.
The decision not to report complaints that a doctor inappropriately touched the breasts of two teenage girls involved the hospital’s most senior administrators, including CEO Deb Feldman, according to documents and testimony reviewed by the Dayton Daily News.
The hospital’s response resulted first in a verbal warning to the doctor and then a formalized policy requiring a nurse or other health professional to be in the room whenever he examined a female patient over the age of 10.
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