At least 144 psychiatric patients died after South Africa’s Gauteng provincial government hastily transferred 1,711 state-funded psychiatric patients in 2015 and 2016 from private health care provider, to other facilities, dozens of which were not properly licensed.
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55 staff at Saskatoon psychiatric centre on workers’ comp after assaults by inmates
Fifty-five of the 130 correctional workers at a multi-level psychiatric hospital in Saskatoon operated by the Correctional Service of Canada are on workers’ compensation because of attacks by inmates, CBC has learned. CBC | Health News
Feds probing psychiatric hospitals for locking in patients to boost profits
Enlarge / A UHS-owned psychiatric facility in Pennsylvania. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) At least three US federal agencies are now investigating Universal Health Services over allegations that its psychiatric hospitals keep patients longer than needed in order to milk insurance companies, Buzzfeed News reports. According to several sources, the UHS’ chain of psychiatric facilities—the largest […]