Psych hospital failed to properly investigate death
HELENA — 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
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HELENA — 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
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 patient's 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