MORE WORKERS OUT IN WAKE OF DEATHS.Byline: Eric Wahlgren Daily News Staff Writer Four more respiratory care therapists were fired and two managers are no longer employed at Glendale Adventist Medical Center Glendale Adventist Medical Center is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. It was founded in 1905. Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a sister institution of Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital system. , where a self-described ``angel of death'' confessed to allegedly killing as many as 50 patients in eight years, hospital officials said Friday. The departures from Glendale Adventist came as police and hospital officials try to determine whether the alleged killings by respiratory therapist Efren Saldivar Efren Saldivar (born 30 September 1969) is an American serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist. Early life Born in Brownsville, Texas, he graduated from the College of Medical and Dental Careers in North Hollywood, California in 1988. of Tujunga actually occurred and, if so, whether other hospital workers knew - and whether Saldivar killed more patients at other hospitals where he worked. Mark Newmyer, a hospital spokesman, refused to name the fired therapists and say whether the managers resigned or were fired. The departures were based on the hospital's own investigation of the allegations against Saldivar. ``At this time, we feel the terminations are appropriate given the information that has been obtained through the hospital's internal and independent investigations,'' Newmyer said, without elaborating on the reasons for the departures. ``We have taken every measure to ensure the safety of all of our patients.'' Also on Friday, another respiratory care therapist was suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. with pay Friday, Newmyer said. In an affidavit affidavit Written statement made voluntarily, confirmed by the oath or affirmation of the party making it, and signed before an officer empowered to administer such oaths. released to the public, a respiratory care therapist, Bob Baker, said he had once seen morphine morphine, principal derivative of opium, which is the juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. It was first isolated from opium in 1803 by the German pharmacist F. W. A. and a paralyzing medication in Saldivar's locker Things commonly known as lockers include:
Hospital did not say whether Baker and Diwa were among the four fired. Sgt. Rick Young of the Glendale Police Department said all the employees who left the hospital's employment Friday would be interrogated in connection with the Saldivar case. Newmyer said Glendale Adventist had misreported the number of respiratory care workers at the hospital, saying the number was 38 not 44. After suspending the entire staff, Newmyer said 32 now had been cleared to return to work. Saldivar confessed March 11 to police that he killed terminally ill Terminally Ill When a person is not expected to live more than 12 months. Notes: Any gifts given out by the afflicted person at this time may be considered as a dispersion of the estate rather than a gift. patients at Glendale Adventist between 1989 and 1997, police announced March 27. The 28-year-old was fired March 13 but is not in custody because police don't have enough evidence to charge him. |
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