Former hospital employee arrested after 3 untimely infants undergo fractures at Virginia intensive care unit
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 Medical doctors’ Hospital with “unexplainable fractures,” based on 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 dealing with malicious wounding and felony youngster abuse costs in reference to the incident, which the hospital mentioned occurred in late November, presumably December.
A spokesperson for HCA Virginia confirmed that Strotman is a former worker of Henrico Medical doctors’ Hospital. The spokesperson didn’t make clear what Strotman’s position was.
“In late November/December, we found that three infants in our Henrico Medical doctors’ Hospital NICU had unexplainable fractures, just like an incident involving 4 infants in the summertime of 2023,” the hospital mentioned in an announcement posted on their web site Dec. 24. “We initiated an intensive inside investigation, knowledgeable the households and notified the correct authorities and regulatory businesses and labored collaboratively with them on their investigations.”
The hospital mentioned that they don’t seem to be 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 expertise and requiring all caregivers to take part in security coaching applications.
HCA Virginia mentioned in an announcement they’re “shocked and saddened” by Strotman’s arrest, and are centered on offering care to their sufferers and supporting workers.
“For greater than 30 years, the NICU at Henrico Medical doctors’ Hospital NICU has offered essential and life-saving care to infants in central Virginia and we stay centered on making certain the provision of that care in our neighborhood,” mentioned Laura Petrosky, HCA Virginia’s assistant vice chairman of strategic communications.
Police additionally mentioned they’re “re-examining the 2023 and 2024 instances as a part of this broader investigation.”
“We recognize the households’ and public’s persistence as we work as totally and expeditiously as doable to research each piece of proof in connection to those instances,” Henrico Chief Eric D. English mentioned in an announcement.
