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4837 Under Civil Code section 51.9, a medical center may be directly liable for ratifying the conduct of a certified nursing assistant in its employ who sexually abused patients, if it failed to respond to patient complaints about the abuse, even though it is a corporation and not in a fiduciary relationship with the abused patients.CitationC.R. v TENET HEALTHCARE (Patient Groper) 169 CA4 1094 [See: CivC 51.9, 52, 14; Hassan v Mercy 31 C4 709, T/AT 9/03; Baptist v Robinson 143 CA4 151, T/AT 10/06; Murillo v Rite Stuff 65 CA4 833, T/AT 8/98]
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