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East Tennessee Women's Clinic
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A sister clinic to the Lime 5 clinic
East Tennessee Women's Clinic was owned by Sue Crawley -- see Chattanooga Women's Clinic
This facility was closed by authorities after an investigation found (I've put the nastiest in italics):
- toilet facilities needing repair
- receptionist assisting between patients
- receptionist bringing dirty supplies to the instrument room and bringing out clean supplies with the same gloves still on
- medical records stored in an 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 a packages of curettage tips, stored in a box containing dead bugs, found on the floor
- brownish-red residue on floor of first treatment room
- dirt on floors of waiting room and second treatment room
- instrument cleaning room floor described as "blackened"
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- dirty lavatories
- no soap or towels in lavatories
- no paper towels in treatment room
- beds in the recovery room had soiled sheets and blankets
- two beds in the recovery room were unmade, with large reddish-brown stains on the mattresses
- microwave oven in the kitchen area contained "fast-food bag which emitted a foul odor and contained a gray and green, fur-covered object"
- instrument cleaning room contained red-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
(Knoxville News-Sentinel 5-27-87; Knoxville News-Sentinel 2-17-85)
On Friday, inspectors found 18 individually bagged abortion tissue specimens from the previous Monday "in a garbage bag sitting on boxes of formaldehyde." The state's report said "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." (Knoxville News-Sentinel 5-27-87; Knoxville News-Sentinel 2-17-85)
An Associated Press story dated September 19, 1989, says that the state scheduled a hearing to decide whether to revoke the clinic's license for failing to carry the required $2 million malpractice insurance.
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