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A third Jackson Park Hospital nurse claimed like two others in the last eight months she was strip searched, and is suing the South Side hospital.

Named as defendants in the suit besides the hospital are Merritt Hasbrouck, president and chief executive officer of JPH; Diane Glenn, director of behavior medicine at JPH; and Vernell Williams, director of nursing at JPH. The hospital is located at 7531 S. Stony Island Ave.

JPH nurses Wilma Joubert and Mable Dortch, filed suit on Oct. 12, 2011 in Cook County circuit court. Camille Taylor filed her suit on February 1, and said
 

“Never in my 25 years of being a nurse have I experienced something this horrible. I have worked at Jackson Park Hospital for the past seven years and never would have imagined that my world would be turned upside down by having my dignity taken away,” Taylor, 54, said. “No one should have to come to subject themselves to such humility just to keep their job.”

On Aug. 16, 2011, Taylor started her day at work like she always does by arriving early Joubert and Dortch were finishing their overnight shifts that day when Taylor arrived at 7 a.m. to relieve them. Once Taylor punched in to work she learned that a routine inventory of controlled drugs (medicine) turned up one (Vicodin) pill missing. Hospital policy required that she report it and she did.
 

“After that all hell broke loose,” Taylor recalled. “I, along with Wilma and Mable, were taken to an open conference room where staff and patients could see inside and was violated one by one.”
 

According to Taylor, she was ordered to take her clothes off and squat down.

“I told them I was against it but was told if I don’t comply I would be fired,” Taylor explained as she chocked up and started crying. “And I know that two previous nurses had been fired in the past for something like this. I was scared of losing my job because I am single and have no one to help me pay my bills.”

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