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The Montana state health department has expanded its contract with a private consulting group hired to oversee the struggling Montana State Hospital and other public health care facilities.

The Montana state health department has expanded its contract with a private consulting group hired to oversee the struggling Montana State Hospital and other public health care facilities.

The Montana state health department has expanded its contract with a private consulting group hired to oversee the struggling Montana State Hospital and other public health care facilities.

The facilitys "inadvertent" employment of Larissa Mack, a former psychiatric technician who spent five years at the facility, ultimately cost the Montana State Hospital nearly $90,000.

The Montana State Hospital was $17 million over budget and patients with dementia are still sometimes held four to a room, according to testimony from the new state health department director.

The Montana State Hospital was $17 million over budget and patients with dementia are still sometimes held four to a room, according to testimony from the new state health department director.

The Montana State Hospital was $17 million over budget and elderly patients with dementia and severe mental illness are still sometimes held four to a room, according to testimony Friday from the new director of the state health department.

On Friday, a nurse in the hospital's Spratt Unit discovered a patient-on-patient sexual assault around 11 p.m.

The state health department is investigating an allegation of a patient-on-patient sexual assault that occurred at the Montana State Hospital.

Spurred by recent deaths at the state psychiatric hospital, Montana lawmakers agreed Friday to begin drafting legislation to address population management and oversight at the facility in Warm Springs.