More workers attacked in ongoing 'safety crisis' at Iowa mental health facility [View all]
At least four state employees have been injured in violent outbursts from patients at the Independence Mental Health Institute in the last two weeks.
It’s the same facility that made headlines in May after nurse Tina Suckow spoke publicly about being beaten unconscious and ultimately removed from the state’s payroll for what she contends was “not healing quickly enough.”
The latest assaults include a nurse punched in the nose and three residential treatment workers who sustained head or neck injuries from patient attacks, according to information from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
The nurse initially gave two weeks' notice after the attack, but she rendered her resignation immediate after she was left — during the same June 6 shift — to work in the sex offender unit by herself while coworkers responded to another emergency, AFSCME said.
Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/06/21/iowa-independence-mental-health-institute-safety-crisis-violence-dhs-health-care-afscme-attacks/1513162001/
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