U-M Health System under investigation after child porn incident
The University of Michigan Health System is under investigation from the Department of Education and nonprofit health care accrediting organization the Joint Commission after a child pornography incident went unreported for six months.
According to The Michigan Daily, U-M’s newspaper, a flash drive belonging to medical resident Stephen Jenson that contained sexually explicit material was found by a female resident of the health system in May 2011.
Jenson was arrested on charges of possessing child pornography in December 2011. Court records showed that U-M officials waited until November 2011 to report the incident to police.
U-M spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told the Daily that the case initially was dismissed by university officials because of lack of evidence, but was reopened in November and investigated further.
Fitzgerald said no formal complaint against the U-M’s health system has yet been filed.
Officials from the Joint Commission and the Department of Education were vague as to what the investigations would consist of, but the examination is related to the health system’s delayed response to the child pornography claims.
The commission has not yet found the health system at fault, but a spokesman said the establishment could be subject to unannounced site evaluations and re-evaluations for accreditation or certification in the future.
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