Local veterans looking for help lost their biggest resource in March when the Hines VA Hospital's Mental Health Unit shut down with no explanation.
CHICAGO -- Local veterans looking for help lost their biggest resource in March when the Hines VA Hospital's Mental Health Unit shut down with no explanation.
She said the Hines Mental Health Intake Center staff is concerned that less than half the beds in the unit are available for struggling veterans. The assessment has 87 recommendations to improve care and safety for staff and veterans, including adding alarms, training for mock psychiatric emergencies, adding padding to seclusion room, limiting access of silverware for high risk vets, conducting drills of behaviors and other emergencies and training staff on safety checks, missing patients and door alarm checks.
Hill said nurses at Hines have"sounded the alarm" about the same problems found in the report, for more than a year. She said there needs to be a coordinated plan with staff, to quickly fix these issues. She said Hines management has not yet spoken to staff about the report.
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