By Ben Lockhart
KSL.com
UTAH — A physician assistant and supervising nurse were fired by the Utah Department of Corrections on Thursday following a pair of investigations into the death of a Utah State Prison inmate who was stood up for two kidney dialysis treatments in April.
Richard Garden, the department’s clinical services bureau director, will no longer fill that leadership post in the aftermath of the incident and was reassigned to work for the department as a doctor, according to the Department of Corrections.
A second supervising nurse was demoted and another nurse received a 40-hour suspension in the wake of 62-year-old Ramon Estrada’s death. A dialysis technician failed twice to show up for their appointment with Estrada and six other inmates on April 3 and April 4. Estrada died about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, April 5, while prison employees were preparing to take him to University Hospital for dialysis treatment.
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