Insufficient staffing, indiscriminate hiring practices, training failures, “tolerance of unacceptable behavior” and “not holding their staff members accountable” can imperil patients, the foundation said. “The setting itself can also contribute to patient abuse.”

HCA Florida Citrus Hospital had a policy for identifying, investigating and reporting patient allegations of sexual misconduct or abuse by a health care worker when Ray was attacked in early 2021.

Dated November 2020 and…