When she was hospitalized on New Year’s Eve 2015, A.L. felt uncomfortable about the way her nurse treated her.
He said he was fixing a heart monitor, but his hands lingered on her chest, in places no health care provider had touched her before when doing similar checks.
He gave her Champagne, she said, and dosed her with pain medication through an IV without asking if she needed any.
She was too frightened to report the inappropriate touching right away, the 43-year-old woman said in a recent interview, but she eventually told the hospital when an employee conducting surveys for Intermountain Medical Center called and asked about her stay at the Murray facility.