Messenger: Missouri jails have a mental health crisis. One man’s story shows the problem.
There are more than 400 people stuck in Missouri jails even though a judge has ordered them to mental health treatment.
Mental health patient not checked for three hours
Henok Zaid Gebrsslasie should have been checked every 15 minutes, a jury at his inquest hears.
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Mental health patient not checked for three hours
A man who was found dead while under the care of a mental health facility was left unchecked for three hours, an inquest has heard. Henok Zaid Gebrsslasie was found unresponsive in his room at the ...
Palms West beating: Judge denies bail, house arrest for patient arrested in attack on nurse
Leelamma Lal, a 67-year-old nurse at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, may lose her eyesight as a result of the beating she ...
What hospitals can do to protect staff and patients when violence strikes a place of healing
Last month’s attack at a Pennsylvania hospital is among an alarming number of incidents of violence against healthcare ...
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Messenger: Missouri jails have a mental health crisis. One man’s story shows the problem.
That means he’s supposed to be transferred to the custody of the state Department of Mental Health for treatment ... there are 28 such patients. For the past several years, the numbers have ...
A man police believed was in a mental health crisis died neglected in a Maryland jail; his family and a lawmaker are calling for action
Howard County settled with the family of Richard Hall for $1.25 million, after his family and estate brought a suit against the county alleging that he died in their care from medical neglect, after ...
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'This is unimaginable': Palms West nurse's children react to mother's beating by patient
Instead, it was a man who said a patient at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital ... West Hospital for over 21 years before being ...
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Urgent warning over common acne drug as doctors share side effect that left man, 20, with life-threatening condition
The drug is well known for its potential mental health ... that patients should also be aware of its potentially serious effects on the pancreas. At the hospital, tests confirmed the man, whose ...
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Nurse attack suspect will remain jailed, accused of saying 'Indians are bad' after incident
The man accused of brutally attacking ... sought to have their client moved elsewhere so he could receive mental health support. Scantlebury was a patient at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital ...
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Police misconduct probe over missing man claims
Matthew Caseby, 23, a mental health patient at the Priory Hospital Woodbourne ... under the Mental Health Act following reports of a man running on to railway tracks near Oxford five days before ...