Five women have filed lawsuits alleging that a former NorthShore University HealthSystem gynecologist sexually assaulted them
Another five women have filed lawsuits alleging that a former NorthShore University HealthSystem obstetrician/gynecologistThe women filed six lawsuits in recent weeks in Cook County Circuit Court against Dr. Fabio Ortega. Ortega
Ortega now faces more than a dozen lawsuits, with many of those lawsuits also naming NorthShore as a defendant and others naming Swedish Hospital as a defendant, said Tamara Holder, an attorney representing the women. The lawsuits allege the hospital systems failed to protect patients from Ortega, who worked for Swedish before moving to NorthShore, and Swedish has since become part of NorthShore.
“Ortega engaged in a pattern or practice of disguising his sexual assaults as necessary medical care through a variety of techniques,” according to the complaints. In February 2017, the Skokie police notified NorthShore that they were conducting a criminal investigation into whether Ortega had sexually assaulted patients, yet NorthShore continued to schedule patients for Ortega for the next six months, according to the lawsuits.Ortega was arrested in September 2018 by Skokie police and originally charged with one count of criminal sexual assault.
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