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A North Carolina mental hospital is again in danger of losing federal funding after a patient tried to commit suicide late last month by using a bedsheet to hang herself.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Monday that federal regulators found the staff at Central Regional Hospital failed to act to prevent the suicide attempt, even though the 21-year-old patient told a nurse exactly how she planned to take her life.
Based on the March 5 report released Monday, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a finding that indicates the conditions monitored at the facility could pose an immediate threat to patient safety.
Hospital administrators have until March 28 to fix the deficiencies or face the loss of federal Medicaid and Medicare funding totaling $1.2 million a month.
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By Marsha V. Hammond, PhD on 03/17 01:42 PM
http://madame-defarge.blogspot.com Friday, March 06, 2009 Central Hospital: maybe they should remove the 'how to hang yourself' call button cord, telephone cord, and other cord on the wall Who in the world is running these hospitals for people who are suicidal? Do we need to have a 'training session' for NC DHHS? What's with the 'how to hang yourself' cords in the pic? When I have clients in Copestone, part of Mission Hospital in Asheville, if they are suicidal,the rooms are clean except for a bed. Even the vent hole is blocked off with heavy mesh screwed in heavy-duty style. And the staff checks on them very regularly. So, the pic has a call button 'hang yourself' cord. Another hang yourself cord plugged into the panel at the head of the bed. And a phone cord. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to look at that scene and think: gee, they could wrap any of those cords around their necks, hang off the bed or the kickaway bedside table. They don't check on people there? Amazing. Its not the employees fault (gotta fire those bad apple employees!) that there are 3 cords in the picture which could be used to hang yourself----not to mention the bedside table you can kick away as you get strangled by the phone cord. Its the heads of NC DHHS and in particular whoever is the head administrator that should be fired. I can't get the pic to transfer; if its accurate, then its unbelieveable. http://news.mync.com/site/news/story/28907
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