Criticized child abuse expert leaves Tacoma hospital

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A Tacoma children’s hospital doctor criticized for lacking a key accreditation who was relied upon by law enforcement to charge two fathers with killing their children no longer works at the hospital. In response to a Kitsap Sun inquiry Wednesday about the status of Dr. Elizabeth Woods, the Mary Bridge Children’s hospital confirmed Woods had left her position to pursue opportunities. Further questions from the newspaper weren’t answered. Woods was listed as late as Wednesday on the hospital’s website as the medical director at Mary Bridge Children’s Child Abuse Intervention Department. She had been the subject of a 2020 investigation by NBC News and KING5 that found she lacked key credentials other child abuse experts had.