Tag: Colorado Mental Health Institute In Pueblo
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Work begins on addressing violations at Colorado mental hospital: ‘We’re using a system that doesn’t work now’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the number of online beds and employees working at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo continue on a downward trajectory, triage measures to help alleviate the increasingly clogged pipeline for pre-trial criminal defendants waiting in jails for admittance to Colorado’s largest psychiatric hospital…
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Problems at Colorado’s primary mental hospital so severe that it faces potential loss of Medicare
Officials at Colorado’s primary mental hospital failed to protect a 20-year-old patient who suffered loss of brain function when he attempted to kill himself at the facility nearly three months ago, allowing violations in protocols meant to prevent such tragedies, state regulators determined. Backlog of people waiting for treatment at Colorado’s mental hospital could lead…
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‘People are fed up:’ Staff shortages, waiting list grows at Colorado mental hospital
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chase Falk waited nearly six months in the Larimer County jail for a bed to open for a court-ordered mental competency evaluation at the state-run Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. From January until the end of June, the 20-year-old Kersey resident was kept in isolation…