Controversy
The federal government is again threatening to cut off funding to treat patients at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro unless problems are resolved. The state Department of Health and Human Services said Cherry Hospital received a letter August 11, 2008 to submit a correction plan within the next three weeks or face losing funds. The problems stem from two patient complaints reported in April and reviewed last week by inspectors. They found evidence the hospital failed to monitor properly a patient for hydration and nutrition. They also said workers didn't do a good job calming down an agitated patient. Cherry Hospital faced a similar threats in 2007 but corrected the problems in time. (http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/1173656.html) (Sorry, this page no longer exists.)
A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding.
The state sent a team Tuesday to help Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro draft new procedures to ensure patients receive proper care.
An investigator's report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he choked on medication and was left sitting in a chair for close to a day at the facility about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Raleigh. Surveillance video showed hospital staff watching television and playing cards a few feet away.
Read more about this topic: Cherry Hospital
Famous quotes containing the word controversy:
“Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)