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Sexual Molestation at the Sleep Lab
By JEFF GREEN
jgreen@MorningJournal.com
ELYRIA — A former Amherst sleep lab technician has pleaded no contest to charges he groped five women that sought therapy at the lab.
Mina N. Roufail, 23, of Parma Heights, pleaded no contest yesterday to five counts each of sexual imposition and gross sexual imposition. He will be sentenced by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery at a later date.
Roufail is accused of groping the women at Superior Medical Sleep Lab at 959 Cooper Foster Park Road, where he is no longer employed.
Two of the victims have sued Roufail. One of the women, who suffered from sleep apnea, said she was molested by him while she was scheduled to sleep overnight at the clinic for testing from April 9 to 10 last year, according to her lawsuit.
The woman is claiming the sleep lab failed to perform an appropriate background check and supervise Roufail during his employment and they should not have allowed Roufail to be the only employee at the Amherst clinic while several women were sleeping there. She also says the lab should have been monitored with videotape and television screens both for medical testing and to provide additional security for the patients.
jgreen@MorningJournal.com
ELYRIA — A former Amherst sleep lab technician has pleaded no contest to charges he groped five women that sought therapy at the lab.
Mina N. Roufail, 23, of Parma Heights, pleaded no contest yesterday to five counts each of sexual imposition and gross sexual imposition. He will be sentenced by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery at a later date.
Roufail is accused of groping the women at Superior Medical Sleep Lab at 959 Cooper Foster Park Road, where he is no longer employed.
Two of the victims have sued Roufail. One of the women, who suffered from sleep apnea, said she was molested by him while she was scheduled to sleep overnight at the clinic for testing from April 9 to 10 last year, according to her lawsuit.
The woman is claiming the sleep lab failed to perform an appropriate background check and supervise Roufail during his employment and they should not have allowed Roufail to be the only employee at the Amherst clinic while several women were sleeping there. She also says the lab should have been monitored with videotape and television screens both for medical testing and to provide additional security for the patients.
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Permalink Reply by Jan on
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I remember being freaked out (ok, freaked out may be too strong a word)-- when I realized that the door to my room could not be locked while I was going to be sleeping. That alone gave me the creeps.
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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My son-in-law has his titration study tonight.
When he had his first sleep study done he said it was kind of weird since the sleep lab built a stand-alone clinic a block from the hospital, they still must be using the two bed clinic at the hospital. He said the nurse, female, came in to tell him she would be gone for a little bit as she had to go monitor the patients at the hospital. I don't know if other patients were in the sleep lab, but I thought it was pretty lame that the tech there had to go a block away to check on other patients.
How many patients can one tech take care of?
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Permalink Reply by Rock Conner RRT on
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I think AASM limits the patient to tech ration at 2:1, and there are both accreditation & liability standards requiring that patients not be left alone in a sleep lab!
sleepycarol said:My son-in-law has his titration study tonight.
When he had his first sleep study done he said it was kind of weird since the sleep lab built a stand-alone clinic a block from the hospital, they still must be using the two bed clinic at the hospital. He said the nurse, female, came in to tell him she would be gone for a little bit as she had to go monitor the patients at the hospital. I don't know if other patients were in the sleep lab, but I thought it was pretty lame that the tech there had to go a block away to check on other patients.
How many patients can one tech take care of?
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