Hospital Chain Allegedly Locks In Psych Patients Against Their Will For Money

[FlowerWhiskers]

Long article, but worth the read. Nothing scares the shit out of me more than this scenario.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosalindadams/intake?utm_term=.hw9YQJxZPx#.iujBMRznJz

It was nearly 11 p.m. by the time a staff member walked her down a long hallway. She recalled being startled to see rooms that were filled not with desks but with beds.

A technician rifled through Trimble’s purse for sharp objects and then a nurse told her to strip down to her underwear. It was then, she said, that she realized the doors to the psychiatric ward had locked behind her.

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Current and former employees from at least 10 UHS hospitals in nine states said they were under pressure to fill beds by almost any method — which sometimes meant exaggerating people’s symptoms or twisting their words to make them seem suicidal — and to hold them until their insurance payments ran out.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

What a nightmare.

 

[lithiumgirl]

This is sick ... Like the private prison racket.