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Mass. Nurses Association wants say in dealing with problems at Worcester Recovery Center
By Janine Weisman
The Massachusetts Nurses Association is demanding information on staffing and policies at the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital (WRCH) after a lack of progress by the state Department of Mental Health in addressing dangerous conditions for both patients and staff that have been going on for years there. “”No longer are we going to accept as a union allowing them to hire some consultant to give recommendations of what needs to be done,” David Schildmeier, director of public communications for the Massachusetts Nurses Association told New England Psychologist. “We are demanding that they sit down with us and work with [More]
Tags: hospital, patient safety, Massachusetts Nurses Association, Worcester Recovery Center, safety protocols, dangerous conditions
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Study finds lack of data a barrier to systems-level research on patient safety
By Janine Weisman
Morgan Shields admits she was naive in the summer of 2017 when she first submitted an online public records request for all substantiated complaints against inpatient psychiatric facilities in Massachusetts. The paralegal from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) who called her told her it would cost more than $100,000 to provide the records. “I thought what he was saying was it would cost the state that much money to redact all of the information, just go through all the files,” recalled Shields, a Ph.D. candidate and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism fellow at the Institute for [More]
Tags: patient safety, complaints, online public records, research study, monitoring system, inpatient psychiatry, patient outcomes, accountability
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