Utah hospital CEO on nurse arrest video: 'This will not happen again'
Alex Wubbels
This screengrab from video provided by Salt Lake City police  shows  University Hospital in Salt Lake City nurse Alex Wubbels  being handcuffed by police officers. (Photo: Salt Lake City Police)
 The Utah hospital  dragged into the national spotlight after a Salt Lake City detective arrested a nurse for doing her job has apologized to the nurse and banned police officers from conversing with nurses in  the hospital .
Gordon Crabtree  CEO of University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City  said hospital security should have intervened when  burn unit nurse Alex Wubbels  was arrested for refusing to allow a detective to take blood from an comatose patient.
"To our nurses and staff â this will not happen again " Crabtree said at a news conference Monday. " âNurse Wubbels  was placed in an unfair and unwarranted position (and)  her  actions were nothing less than exemplary.â
Crabtree said  the hospital  has changed  its  policies and now requires police officers to speak only to senior nurse supervisors. No contacts can be made in patient areas.
The incident took place July 26  but went viral last week after lawyers for  Wubbels  obtained and released the body camera video. The video shows Detective Jeff Payne asking  then insisting  that he be allowed to draw blood from a patient  whose vehicle had been hit by another vehicle.
The video shows  Wubbels  calmly denying Payne's request  saying hospital policy required a judge's order or the patient's consent unless the patient was under arrest. Payne walks toward  Wubbels  saying  "We're done here. We're done. "
 Wubbels  has expressed disappointment that hospital security officers on the scene did nothing to halt her arrest.
University of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy said his officers wrongly believed Payne had implied consent when they allowed  Wubbels  to be arrested. He described Wubbles as a "rock star."
This screengrab from video provided by Salt Lake City police  shows   [TGT] being handcuffed by police officers. (Photo: Salt Lake City Police)
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Gordon Crabtree  CEO of University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City  said hospital security should have intervened when  burn  [TGT] was arrested for refusing to allow a detective to take blood from an comatose patient.
"To our nurses and staff â this will not happen again " Crabtree said at a news conference Monday. "  [TGT] was placed in an unfair and unwarranted position (and)   [TGT]   actions were nothing less than exemplary.â
Crabtree said   [TGT] has changed   [TGT]   policies and now requires police officers to speak only to senior nurse supervisors. No contacts can be made in patient areas.
The incident took place July 26  but went viral last week after lawyers for   [TGT] obtained and released the body camera video. The video shows Detective Jeff Payne asking  then insisting  that he be allowed to draw blood from a patient  whose vehicle had been hit by another vehicle.
The video shows   [TGT] calmly denying Payne's request  saying hospital policy required a judge's order or the patient's consent unless the patient was under arrest. Payne walks toward   [TGT] saying  "We're done here. We're done.  [TGT] 
has expressed disappointment that hospital security officers on the scene did nothing to halt  [TGT]  arrest.
University of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy said his officers wrongly believed Payne had implied consent when they allowed   [TGT] to be arrested.  [TGT]  described Wubbles as a "rock star."