Below is the link to the January 30, 2009, 58-page Department of Justice (Civil Rights Division) report to Mayor Bloomberg on Kings County Hospital inpatient psych units.
The report deals with problems found at Kings County Hospital psychiatry department.
If you work in a hospital some of their suggestions are helpful and will alert you to various problems.
Some topics are:
- Protection from harm,
- controlling patient assault and aggression
- suicide and self harm
- 1:1 observation
- incident record keeping
- inadequate psychiatric assessments and diagnoses
- inadequate nursing assessments
- inadequate treatment plans
- need to update and diagnoses
- failure to modify treatment plans
- ineffective treatment team process
- inadequate medication management
- inadequate behavioral management services
- restraints
- inappropriate transfers in lieu of treatment
- failure to provide adequate medical and nursing care
- falsification of medical records
- inadequate PI and QA
- unsafe physical environment
- fire safety
- inadequate clinical leadership
- inadequate discharge planning and placement
Department of Justice Report on Kings County Hospital (pdf) [58 pages]http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/2009/2009130KCHC.pdf
New York Times article about this report:
New York Times February 6, 2009
Violence and Sexual Abuse Found at City-Run Psychiatric Unit
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
LINK:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/nyregion/06kings.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
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