David McQuaid died shortly after Jan. 27, 2002.
I could have been him had I been a compliant obedient mental patient.
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Closure of unsanitary psychiatric hospital residence leads to investigation
” Douglas warned facility filthy
Knew for months. Health board found Mascouche residence was dirty,lacked food
DEBBIE PARKES
The Gazette
December 04, 2003
This residence in Mascouche for psychiatric patients, under contract with the Douglas Hospital, was shut down in October after complaints about the conditions there.
CREDIT: JOHN KENNEY, THE GAZETTE
The Douglas Hospital knew for months about desperate conditions at a home for psychiatric patients it oversaw but only shut it down after being forced to act.
The Pavillon des Pins home in Mascouche had been the object of a formal complaint by the regional health board last May for lack of food, unsanitary conditions and brown tap water. And more than a year prior to that, one of the residents had died of pneumonia after becoming hypothermic. Ambulance attendants who arrived to pick up David McQuaid on
Jan. 27, 2002, reported the temperature of the room at 5C, the
coroner’s report says.
McQuaid was in a very bad state of hygiene, the coroner’s report says. After being sent the coroner’s report in November 2002, the Douglas put together an action plan to correct problems. Hospital general manager Jacques Hendlisz said one of the changes – that there always be at least two people on duty – was carried out, but others were not.
Sources close to the Douglas also said, as recently as this summer, front-line hospital workers who visited the place periodically had voiced concerns to their superiors but to no avail.
Last week, Hendlisz said the hospital has hired an investigator – the hospital’s former lawyer, Johanne Brodeur – to find out why nothing wasdone. Since then, the investigation team has grown by two members.
Yesterday, Montreal Health and Social Services Board spokeperson Lise Chabot said her organization will take part, too, as will a member of the Douglas’s users’ committee.
The hospital also suspended its manager in charge of housing, Steve Wohl, on Nov. 17 pending Brodeur’s report, expected mid-January.
Pavillon des Pins was finally shut down in October after
representatives of the Public Curator’s office paid a surprise visit. They found a pitifully depressing place, stinking of urine, with mildew on the walls and windows, no toilet paper in the bathroom and a dark, unlit hallway. Nor was there
enough food to feed the 15 Douglas patients who’d been placed there, says their report dated Oct. 22.
The residence was under contract with the hospital for about $24,000 a month to care for the patients. Hendlisz acknowledged residents had lost weight and some also had foot problems. He said he didn’t know how much weight they’d lost.
But sources say several patients had lost so much weight that some Douglas Hospital staff were alarmed. The patients were relocated temporarily at the hospital before being placed in other homes.”
More of the article at the “iatrogenic” link at the top.
This seems to be negligence for money (profit-crime) rather than organized killing of Action T4. Kobierzyn Mental Home.
