Tag: Robert Werthwein
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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…
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Backlog of people waiting for treatment at Colorado’s mental hospital could lead to more death: Report
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More criminal defendants with untreated psychosis languishing in Colorado jails will maim and kill themselves if the state doesn’t reduce a growing backlog of nearly 350 people waiting for treatment at the state’s primary mental hospital, court-ordered monitoring reports predict. And court documents and budget…
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‘People are fed up:’ Staff shortages, waiting list grows at Colorado mental hospital
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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…