A federal lawsuit filed this week argues that Montana's psychiatric hospital has been so poorly run for decades that patients are not safe. The suit contends that the patients are not treated with dignity and respect and that understaffing, lack of training and neglect have hastened the deaths of two patients.
HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s state psychiatric hospital has been so poorly run for decades that patients are unsafe and not treated with dignity and respect, which combined with a pattern of understaffing, lack of training and neglect has hastened the deaths of two patients, a lawsuit filed this week states.
The lawsuit names Gov. Greg Gianforte, the director of the Department of Public Health and Human Services, and the director of the state hospital along with the state and its health department.
DiMauro, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2012, was admitted to the Montana State Hospital in September 2020. He was regularly overmedicated, suffered numerous falls that his guardian was not notified about, contracted COVID-19 and on Aug. 5, 2020 was diagnosed with colon cancer, according to the complaint. A doctor expected him to live for another three to six months, the complaint states.
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