Violence and Abuse at City-Run Psychiatric Unit
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.
The details are laid out in a 58-page report to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that was made public on Thursday.CLICK HERE FOR MORE ... [NYT]
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