A former worker at a healthcare center where a woman in vegetative state gave birth said there was a culture of 'don't ask - don't tell' with bonuses offered to staff if incidents were not reported.
Marla Kica said staff at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix were given financial incentives to encourage them not to officially report problems and that there was a climate of fear among her colleagues.
Phoenix police have said the 29-year-old Native American woman incapacitated since age three was sexually assaulted and gave birth last month.
Investigators are collecting DNA from Hacienda's male employees and others who may have had contact with the woman in an effort to identify a suspect.
When Kica began working at the care home for people with disabilities, she was a supervisor, before moving on to the internal review committee.
Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix where a 29-year-old woman gave birth despite being in a vegetative state for more than a decade
Phoenix police officers are pictured here visiting residents of the home around the time of the holidays in 2014
Slips, falls and bed sores on patients were allegedly under-reported in official documents, Kica told ABC15.
She said: 'If you went so many days without an incident then you would get a bonus.
'I don't know how much other people were offered. I received a lot of bonuses. A lot.'
She also claimed CEO of Hacienda HealthCare, Bill Timmons, would get the final sign off on every final report and recommendation as he was her direct supervisor and that staff were afraid of him.
Kica added: 'You knew that you filled out an incident report and four or five people saw it before he [Timmons] looked it over and put his signature on it.
'So the likelihood of the information being reported correct was very-very low.'
The revelation that a woman in a vegetative state was raped inside a care facility has horrified advocates for people with disabilities and the community at large.
Hacienda HealthCare CEO Bill Timmons stepped down last week in light of the scandal. A former colleague said his staff were scared of him
State regulators reportedly wanted to remove developmentally disabled patients from Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, a long-term care facility years before a woman in a vegetative state gave birth
Hacienda HealthCare's CEO William Timmons resigned on December 31 as the provider announced new safety measures, including more than one staff member being present during patient interactions and more scrutiny of visitors.
The woman's family, who are members of the San Carlos Apache tribe, said in a statement through their attorney that they will care for the infant boy.
Regulators wanted to remove developmentally disabled patients from the long-term care facility years before the woman gave birth, an Arizona newspaper reported on Sunday.
The Arizona Republic reported Hacienda HealthCare faced a 2016 criminal investigation for allegedly billing the state more than $4 million for bogus 2014 charges for wages, transportation, housekeeping, maintenance and supplies.
The criminal case was dropped in 2017 and no charges were filed, the Republic said, but a court battle is continuing in an effort to force Hacienda to turn over financial records.
Members of the Phoenix police department would regularly visit the home during the holidays
The woman was an enrolled member of the San Carlos Apache tribe, whose reservation is in southeastern Arizona about 134 miles east of Phoenix. Members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe are seen in a 2014 Facebook photo
Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, said his office is considering bringing in a third party to assume responsibility for the ongoing management of Hacienda.
The nonprofit facility gets more than $20 million annually in taxpayer funds for taking care of extremely ill people, many of whom are incapacitated and on ventilators, the Republic reported.
Hacienda's annual average cost of care was $386,000 per client in 2012 compared with $134,000 per client in similar U.S. facilities, Arizona Department of Economic Security auditors said.
San Carlos Apache Tribal Chairman Terry Rambler
Former economic security director, Timothy Jeffries, and the agency's chief law enforcement officer, Charles Loftus have both filed lawsuits against the state, claiming they were forced out of their jobs over their probe of Hacienda.
Jeffries was forced to resign in 2016 after a series of controversies, including a finding by the Arizona Department of Public Safety that the department kept shoddy record-keeping, had insecure storage of guns and ammunition and that it had violated state procurement policies in buying some 60,000 rounds of ammunition.
He filed suit against the state in 2017 over what he claims is libel in a police report that detailed a stash of weapons and ammunition kept in the agency offices. He claims statements in the DPS audit were false and that there were malicious motives involved in the report.
The Republic quoted Jeffries as saying Timmons was obstinate during the investigation of Hacienda and bragged of tight ties to Ducey.
Ducey spokeswoman Elizabeth Berry said the governor was horrified by accounts of the rape and denied that the state failed to act on concerns raised by the economic security department.
She also said Hacienda played no part in the forced resignations of Jeffries and Loftus after their two-year tenure.
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