Los Angeles, CA Fax. It is run by Strategic Behavioral Health, which is opening a similar psychiatric hospital in Middleton. Strategic Behavioral Health, the company opening a psychiatric hospital in Middleton, in May closed a similar facility in Las Vegas after regulatory problems. In September, authorities in Colorado shut down another hospital run by the company after numerous violations. In April , before the city of Middleton approved the building of bed Miramont Behavioral Health, the State Journal reported on nine immediate jeopardy citations and other serious actions taken against facilities owned by Strategic Behavioral Health, a for-profit company based in Memphis, Tennessee.
At the time, the company had 10 hospitals in six states. Garone has repeatedly declined to say how many facilities the company has now. One opened last year in Bettendorf, Iowa. State officials said staff failed to prevent or properly investigate: alleged sexual contact between two girls, ages 6 and 8; sex involving two teenage male-female pairs; and physical abuse by staff, including a worker hitting a patient. Investigators also said staff failed to prevent a 9-year-old boy from escaping and did not notify police.
The hospital subsequently had additional violations and lost its Medicare and Medicaid funding in August , according to the Nevada Current and Nevada Public Radio. After being closed, the facility was sold to a new operator, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported in March. Clear View, in Colorado, had more than 40 citations in the past two years for violations including failure to keep dangerous items away from suicidal patients, leaving patients in isolation too long and failure to administer time-necessary drugs at the proper intervals, the Coloradoan in Fort Collins reported in September.
Willow Creek citations. Willow Creek, in Green Bay, received citations from Wisconsin inspectors in late for failing to do full background checks on employees and not properly caring for a patient with an open wound and three patients at risk for falls, including one who fell, as the State Journal reported in The bed geriatric unit at Willow Creek Behavioral Health in Green Bay has a central nursing station to help staff see residents' movement, officials said in A recertification inspection at Willow Creek in January resulted in 28 citations, many related to paperwork but some for clients not getting mental health assessments by psychiatrists or clinical psychologists and not receiving at least three hours a week of individual or family therapy.
Some of the citations involved inadequate staffing, such as not having a psychiatrist present weekly and not having a full-time occupational therapist. Willow Creek told the state it was addressing the problems. Another inspection the following month yielded two citations, including one for not telling patients there is not a doctor present in the hospital at all times.
