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State lawmakers meet Friday to ferret out potential solutions to correct the dangerous conditions at the state hospital, some of which were mirrored in an independent review of the facilitys

A federal inspection identified four patient deaths attributable to the hospitals noncompliance with federal rules.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s state psychiatric hospital has until March 13 to...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s state psychiatric hospital has until March 13 to correct serious deficiencies in patient safety that likely contributed to the deaths of four patients, or face the loss of federal funding, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.

Cases have been confirmed among staff and patients at the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs.

HELENA — Employees at Montanas state psychiatric hospital failed to properly investigate the death of a patient who was reportedly told to go back to her room "and stop being

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Employees at Montana's state psychiatric hospital failed to properly investigate the death of a patient who was reportedly told to go back to her room "and stop being dramatic," after she told staff she was having trouble catching her breath, a federal report said.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Employees at Montana’s state psychiatric hospital failed to properly investigate the death of a patient who was reportedly told to go back to her room “and stop being dramatic,” after she told staff she was having trouble catching her breath, a federal report said. Investigators with the Centers for Medicare and […]

The report details findings of dramatically insufficient staffing — in one case an employee said she thought a patients death could have been prevented if not for being short-staffed.

"My biggest concern was working on the Spratt Unit, we had no real CNA training," a former employee said. "We were learning on the fly, basically, when it comes to