NeuroBehavioral Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Crown Point, Ind., fired an employee last week after she was quoted in a New York Times article about nursing homes and their illegal dumping of unprofitable patients at emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals. The employee, Kimberly Jackson, was a discharge planner at the hospital. The article, published on Sept. 19, quoted her as saying that most of those patients were not psychotic and should not have been sent to the hospital. “The homes seem to be purposely taking symptoms of dementia as evidence of psychosis,” Ms. Jackson said in the article. She cited the example of a resident who a nursing home had claimed was psychotic because the resident yelled at a staff member.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2020 17:29 UTC