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Sierra Vista, owned by PSI Psychiatric Solutions, Inc.
Psychiatry, medication, and abusive practices. Exposing the greedy underbelly of the Mental Health Services nightmare.
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- Miami Herald Reports: Grand Jury Assails Florida Girls' Prison
- NAMI News: Hospital Struggle Results In Homicide
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,".
- Sacbee: Restraint death spurs advocates' questions
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.
- Patient's death draws state, federal scrutiny
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.
- Sacbee: State fines psychiatric hospital for mishandling drugs
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.
- Sacbee: Sacramento psychiatric hospital fined $25,000 for medication error
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.
- Sacbee: Sierra Vista facility blamed for death
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.
- Chicago Tribune Reports: Hospital thwarts police inquiries; violence festered in silence
Illinois' largest psychiatric hospital left sexual predators unguarded despite allegations that at least 10 mentally disabled children were assaulted during the last three years.
- Sacbee: Sierra Vista Hospital expansion plan raises alarms
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.
- Chicago Tribune Reports: Riveredge owner served U.S. subpoena
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.
- Sacbee: Sacramento's VA hospital no longer sends patients to Sierra Vista for mental health treatment
Officials at a Sacramento veterans hospital are so troubled by conditions at a local psychiatric facility they no longer send patients there.
- Sacbee Editorial: Sierra Vista: Time for explanations
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.
- Welcome!
- Civil Cases in Sacramento County
- Sacbee: Roseville assemblyman fights psychiatric hospital expansion
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.
- Update!
- Sutter Health still uses barbaric out-dated treatments: Electroconvulsive Therapy
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.
- PSI has stock increase despite reported violations!
- How do corrupt corporations play politics?
- Sacbee: Autopsy clears Sierra Vista in patient death
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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