SPOKANE, Wash. (Gray News) - Fifteen nurses have been fired at a Washington state children’s hospital after a 12-year-old girl died by suicide at the facility where she was advised to have 24-hour supervision.

According to a filed lawsuit , on the night of April 13, Sarah Niyimbona, 12, left her room in the Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital and died after jumping off a parking garage.

Beginning in late 2024, Sarah was repeatedly admitted to Sacred Heart’s emergency department because of multiple attempts to end her own life.

The filing says that despite the need for 24-hour supervision of Sarah, Providence removed the health care worker assigned to monitor her, along with removing the video monitoring system from her room.

On that tragic night, the lawsuit accuses the staff of failing

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