Brittany
2009-02-06 15:04:00 UTC
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
The federal government has documented a pattern of sexual and other
violent assaults among patients at the psychiatric unit of a city-run
Brooklyn hospital where a woman died in June on the floor of the
emergency waiting room while staff members ignored her.
After a yearlong investigation, the Department of Justice portrayed
the unit at Kings County Hospital Center as a nightmarish place where
patients were not treated for suicidal behavior, were routinely
subdued with physical restraints and drugs instead of receiving
individualized psychiatric treatment, and were frequently abused by
other patients.
For more go to http://badpsych.com/2009/02/06/violence-and-sexual-abuse-found-at-city-run-psychiatric-unit/
The federal government has documented a pattern of sexual and other
violent assaults among patients at the psychiatric unit of a city-run
Brooklyn hospital where a woman died in June on the floor of the
emergency waiting room while staff members ignored her.
After a yearlong investigation, the Department of Justice portrayed
the unit at Kings County Hospital Center as a nightmarish place where
patients were not treated for suicidal behavior, were routinely
subdued with physical restraints and drugs instead of receiving
individualized psychiatric treatment, and were frequently abused by
other patients.
For more go to http://badpsych.com/2009/02/06/violence-and-sexual-abuse-found-at-city-run-psychiatric-unit/