The London nurse who abused residents of the Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care during a 12-month period will not face criminal charges.

London police on Friday said they investigated the allegations against Susan Muzylowsky and the case has been closed.

“The investigation is complete and no charges have been laid,” London police spokesperson Const. Sandasha Bough said.

St. Joseph’s Health Care, operator of the Mount Hope home, called in police in June to investigate allegations against Muzylowsky.

The call to police followed the release a month earlier of disciplinary action by the College of Nurses of Ontario against Muzylowsky in which she agreed not to practice nursing.

In a hearing of the college, Muzylowsky admitted to withholding pain medication, treating patients roughly, advising other staff to help residents masturbate and intimidating colleagues through profanity and insults.

She admitted to professional misconduct and abuse against

19 patients, including telling one, “I’ll give you something to cry about.”

Results of a separate investigation by Ontario Ministry of Health inspectors were posted this week on the ministry website.

In those reports, Mount Hope staff related how the registered practical nurse had repeatedly touched a number of residents in a sexual way without their consent during a 12-month period.

Staff also detailed verbal abuse of residents by the nurse and the withholding of prescribed medications.

Front-line staff had reported incidents to nurses who were in charge during the overnight shifts, but those complaints were not passed along to senior managers or the Health Ministry as required by law, the reports said.

Muzylowsky was suspended immediately after some staff presented documented evidence of misconduct to administrators on Aug. 5, 2014, St. Joseph’s president Gillian Kernaghan said this week. Muzylowsky was fired a month later after an investigation.

But St. Joseph’s did not notify London police about Muzylowsky’s abuse in 2014, a failing noted by ministry inspectors.

The inspection system itself was criticized this week by the Progressive Conservative health critic. Jeff Yurek, the MPP for Elgin-Middlesex-London, said a Health Ministry inspection of Mount Hope in 2014 didn’t turn up any violations, but the re-inspection found numerous violations detailed in the reports.

The provincial Liberals need

to make changes to the inspection system to prevent similar abuse in nursing homes, Yurek said.

The ministry inspectors ruled that Mount Hope had failed to protect residents from physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

A Health Ministry spokesperson this week said the ministry is continuing to monitor the situation at Mount Hope.

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