The East Tennessee Women’s Clinic in Knoxville was shut down by health officials due to numerous health violations including filthy operating rooms and improper storage of instruments.
An investigation found filthy toilet facilities needing repair, a receptionist assisting between patients, a receptionist bringing dirty supplies to instrument room and bringing out clean supplies with the same gloves still on, medical records stored in upstairs closet with no filing or retrieval system, no evidence of physical examination prior to abortion procedures, alcohol-soaked sponges stored in a plastic ice cream container, intravenous needles and packages of curettage tips found on the floor in a box containing dead bugs, a brownish-red residue [probably human blood] on the floor of the first treatment room, dirt on the floors of the waiting room and the second treatment room, an instrument cleaning room floor described as “blackened,” cobwebs and dead insects on the floor of the recovery room, no soap or towels in lavatories, no paper towels in the treatment room, beds in the recovery room with soiled sheets and blankets, two beds in the recovery room unmade, with large reddish-brown stains on their mattresses, a microwave oven in the kitchen area which contained “a fast-food bag which emitted a foul odor and contained a gray and green, fur-covered object,” an instrument cleaning room containing blood-stained rubber gloves, two blackened sponges, a dozen suction curettage tips behind the faucet, a vaginal speculum that shed pieces of brownish-red tissue when handled, and two open boxes of needles.
A news report stated that inspectors found on a Friday individually bagged abortion tissue specimens from the previous Monday “in a garbage bag sitting on boxes of formaldehyde,” and the state’s report said that “functions cannot be and were not adequately performed with part-time nurses hired from a personnel pool and directed by an out-of state physician available one day each week.”
The abortion mill also failed to carry the required $2 million malpractice insurance.
References: Knoxville News-Sentinel, February 17, 1985 and May 27, 1987; Associated Press, September 19, 1989.
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