First Posted 10:42:00 01/10/2010
MANILA, Philippines—Ten Filipino nurses recruited and brought to the United States by Sentosa Care, as well as their lawyer, filed a Federal civil rights lawsuit against the company, its owner and officials, and the Suffolk County district attorney and other officers of the court.
The nurses were among the more than 27 who have been charged for allegedly abandoning and endangering their pediatric and geriatric patients when they resigned en masse in 2006.
In an e-mail to INQUIRER.net, lawyer Felix Vinluan said the lawsuit, which was filed on January 6, 2010, in the Federal District Court in Central Islip New York, seeks unspecified monetary damages. The case followed a decision by a state appellate court dismissing the misdemeanor charge.
Respondents in the case include Sentosa Care; its principle owner Bent Phillipson; Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota; Assistant District Attorney Leonard Lato; Avalon Gardens; Prompt Nursing Employment Agency; Berish Rubinstein; Francris Luyun; and Avalon’s Susan O’Connor and Nancy Fitzgerald.
Separate civil cases brought by Sentosa Care against the so-called Sentosa 27++ nurses and Vinluan are still pending before Justice Stephen Bucaria in Nassau Supreme Court, Vinluan said..
The story attracted headlines in Manila and New York, as Filipino nurses generally look to finding work in the US. Congressional hearings were held in the Philippines in 2007.
AND IT ALL STARTS AGAIN IN ANOTHER FACILITY
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