Two more B.C. Corrections nurses have been suspended for accessing patient records without authorization, bringing the total that the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives has published notices about in the last two months to five. Kristine Sumalinog and Andrea Jusay consented to disciplinary orders from the college back in June, but the BCCNM published summaries of the orders on its website Tuesday. The college previously published notices about Alix Stera, Nigel Pastrana and Agnes Bacsa on Aug. 28. Like Stera and Pastrana, Sumalinog and Jusay are listed in the BCCNM’s online directory as employed by the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre. Bacsa’s employer is listed as Correctional Health Services. Jusay consented to the discipline order against her on June 10, according to the college’s summary, which says she admitted to “having accessed the medical records of a person not in her care on multiple occasions” in April 2025. Sumalinog agreed to her discipline order on June 19. The summary of her misconduct says she admitted to accessing the medical records of a person not in her care on one occasion in May 2025. Jusay was suspended for eight days and Sumalinog for seven, according to the summaries. Jusay is a registered nurse, and Sumalinog is a licensed practical nurse. In both summaries, the college says its investigation committee “considered that the privacy of medical records is core to the trust that clients and others must be able to place in nurses.” “Privacy breaches violate that trust and can be assumed to harm both the nurse–client relationship and the sense of safety for anyone whose privacy was breached,” the summaries read. “The investigation committee was of the view that the ability of nurses to only access medical records for work-related purposes is core to the integrity of the nursing profession.” Neither Jusay nor Somalinog had a previous disciplinary record with the college, and both nurses “made full admissions, engaged in remedial actions, and gained no advantage” from their conduct, according to the summaries. Notably, the timing of the misconduct for all five recently disciplined B.C. Corrections employees is similar. Stera, Pastrana and Bacsa each engaged in their unauthorized access in April or May of 2025 and consented to discipline orders regarding it in May or June of 2026. CTV News has previously asked both the BCCNM and the Provincial Health Services Authority whether the similar timing of the first three nurses’ misconduct is coincidental or reflects some connection or co-ordination between their behaviour. Both organizations declined to share further details.
