A former hospital employee was arrested in reference to a late 2024 incident that left three infants within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Virginia’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital with “unexplainable fractures,” in keeping with officers.
Henrico Police recognized 26-year-old Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, of Chesterfield County, as a suspect throughout an investigation into the incident, per a information launch revealed Friday.
Strotman was arrested and is going through malicious wounding and felony little one abuse costs in reference to the incident, which the hospital stated occurred in late November, probably December.
A spokesperson for HCA Virginia confirmed that Strotman is a former worker of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital. The spokesperson didn’t make clear what Strotman’s function was.
“In late November/December, we found that three infants in our Henrico Doctors’ Hospital NICU had unexplainable fractures, just like an incident involving 4 infants in the summertime of 2023,” the hospital stated in a assertion posted on their web site Dec. 24. “We initiated a radical inside investigation, knowledgeable the households and notified the correct authorities and regulatory companies and labored collaboratively with them on their investigations.”
The hospital stated that they aren’t accepting any extra infants to their NICU out of an abundance of warning, and have additionally taken steps to make the unit safer, together with putting in live-streaming know-how and requiring all caregivers to take part in security coaching applications.
HCA Virginia stated in an announcement they’re “shocked and saddened” by Strotman’s arrest, and are targeted on offering care to their sufferers and supporting workers.
“For greater than 30 years, the NICU at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital NICU has supplied obligatory and life-saving care to infants in central Virginia and we stay targeted on guaranteeing the supply of that care in our neighborhood,” stated Laura Petrosky, HCA Virginia’s assistant vice chairman of strategic communications.
Police additionally stated they’re “re-examining the 2023 and 2024 circumstances as a part of this broader investigation.”
“We admire the households’ and public’s endurance as we work as totally and expeditiously as doable to research each piece of proof in connection to those circumstances,” Henrico Chief Eric D. English stated in an announcement.