State of Florida prohibits psychiatrist James Yelton Rossello from treating female patients

May 31, 2013

On April 19, 2013, the Florida Board of Medicine permanently restricted the license of psychiatrist James Yelton Rossello; he may not examine or treat female patients.

On April 8, 2011, the Florida Department of Health issued an administrative complaint against Rossello, which stated that between November 2009 and August 2010, while employed by Corrections Corporation of America, working at the Hernando County Jail, providing mental health treatment to patients incarcerated at Hernando County Jail, he committed or attempted to commit sexual misconduct on four different female patients.