Tag: Michelle Barnes
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State clears child protection agency in Washington County of ‘systemic bias,’ but concerns remain
While substantiating many complaints from six families who claimed Washington County’s child protective workers unfairly targeted them and separated them from their children, an audit by the Colorado Department of Human Services has concluded the county agency did not engage in systemic bias. A state child protection watchdog, who in June called for the audit,…
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Colorado’s extensive use of confidentiality agreements costs millions, silences whistleblowers
With increasing frequency, Colorado is mandating its employees — some of them whistleblowers calling out misconduct or malfeasance — sign non-disclosure clauses in any financial settlement they make with the state, effectively silencing them from ever letting anyone know what happened in their cases, according to interviews and dozens of records reviewed by The Denver Gazette. In…
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Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo re-accredited despite scoring poorly on quality measures
Surveyors found Colorado’s primary psychiatric hospital in Pueblo scored poorly on quality measures in comparison to other psychiatric hospitals in the nation but re-accredited the facility for the next three years. The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care, last month notified Jill Marshall, the chief executive officer…