Federal inspectors: Georgia mental patients in ‘jeopardy’
August 1st, 2008By Alan Judd and Andy Miller in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Federal regulators declared patients at Georgia Regional Hospital/Atlanta to be in “immediate jeopardy” of physical harm after the hospital failed another recent inspection. The action followed the state’s recent implementation of a $3.4 million “turnaround” plan that was supposed to address persistently dangerous conditions.
The federal government gave the state three weeks to submit another plan to correct violations of patient-care standards. Georgia risks losing millions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funds if appropriate improvements are not made.
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