[Download] "Concerns Arise over Mental Health Care in Texas and the District of Columbia" by Developments in Mental Health Law ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Concerns Arise over Mental Health Care in Texas and the District of Columbia
- Author : Developments in Mental Health Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
Description
A report that seventy-two employees in Texas' ten state mental health hospitals had been fired in the last three years for allegations of physically abusing patients generated considerable attention in Texas. Hundreds more had been terminated for other violations, ranging from sleeping on the job to overmedicating patients with a mental illness. News accounts asserted that these records show that abuse and neglect are systemic in this system, while state officials responded that there will always be some reports of abuse and neglect in an institutional setting and that the number of verified reports had actually dropped. State psychiatric hospitals in Texas provide services to about 2,500 patients daily, admit 18,000 patients annually (with an average length of stay of just over a month), have 7,400 employees, and had 137 confirmed cases of abuse in 2007. About 2,000 allegations of patient abuse are examined annually, with investigators substantiating five percent of them.