Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
The birth — and the sexual assault of a vulnerable individual — cast a harsh glare on conditions at a nonprofit organization that bills itself as a leading provider of health care for Phoenix’s medically fragile.
The 29-year-old woman who gave birth a few days after Christmas was a special — and especially dangerous — case: She had been in a persistent vegetative state since 1992. The infant was delivered by a Hacienda HealthCare nurse.