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Psychiatry, medication, and abusive practices. Exposing the greedy underbelly of the Mental Health Services nightmare.
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A 51-year-old woman, Ramona Knapp died Dec. 5, one day after struggling with medical staff at Sierra Vista Hospital "during an apparent excited delirium state,".
Mental health advocates on Thursday decried the asphyxia homicide of an Elk Grove woman in a Sacramento psychiatric hospital, saying it was the kind of death a 2003 state law was meant to prevent.
Federal and state authorities are determining whether to fine the south Sacramento psychiatric hospital where a patient's death was ruled a homicide after staff pinned her to the floor, officials said.
A Sacramento psychiatric hospital was fined $25,000 Thursday by the state for giving one patient 10 times the suggested dose of the wrong medication, records show.
A Sacramento psychiatric hospital that gave a patient 10 times the suggested dose of the wrong medicine was fined $25,000 Thursday, joining one other psychiatric institution and nine hospitals facing penalties statewide.
A patient at a south Sacramento psychiatric hospital died because of poor care, state regulators said Wednesday – the second wrongful-death case at the hospital in three years.
Illinois' largest psychiatric hospital left sexual predators unguarded despite allegations that at least 10 mentally disabled children were assaulted during the last three years.
The $8 million structure rising behind a south Sacramento psychiatric hospital offers concrete proof of the facility's determination to become the region's largest destination for people in mental health crisis.
After a Tribune investigation the newspaper found that west suburban Riveredge Hospital left sexual predators unguarded despite allegations that at least 10 mentally disabled children were assaulted during the last three years.
Officials at a Sacramento veterans hospital are so troubled by conditions at a local psychiatric facility they no longer send patients there.
As The Bee's Todd Milbourn reported Tuesday, Sierra Vista has one the worst patient mistreatment records of the 147 acute psychiatric hospitals licensed in California.
A state assemblyman is trying to block the expansion of troubled Sierra Vista Hospital in Sacramento, despite arguments that the region is facing a critical shortage of beds for psychiatric patients.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure used to treat severe depression. It may be used in people with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, or suicidal thoughts or when other treatments such as psychotherapy and antidepressant medications have not worked.
A Camino man's death at Sierra Vista Hospital earlier this year occurred from natural causes, an autopsy report shows, and apparently not as a result of poor care at the troubled psychiatric center.
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