More workers attacked in ongoing 'safety crisis' at Iowa mental health facility

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1. Sad state of affairs

I'm glad attention is being brought to this matter. I worked in a private facility but we often had lack of staffing as well. The way we treat the mentally ill is atrocious. You cannot adequately run a mental health unit with bare bones staffing. Things go from 0 to 100 quickly. Not enough funding. We need to demand better. Whether its our private facilities or public facilities.

We have a mental health crisis in this country-but we are not doing anything. The only time our politicians want to talk about it is when there is a tragedy- school shooting- then since they don't want to do anything about guns, they start talking about mental health, meanwhile they are doing nothing to fund our facilities. It is shameful!