What does it take? Shut it down!

Thanks to Joe for tipping me to the latest horror at Ancora psych hospital in New Jersey — the sixth death in two years. From the Courier Post:

Felicia DeBraux, who suffered with an eating disorder, lost consciousness and died on Wednesday.

State lawmakers and mental health advocates say they are angry that three high-ranking members of the Corzine administration who knew about DeBraux’s death sat through a five-hour legislative hearing about conditions at the hospital the day after she died and said nothing about it.

She is the sixth patient to die at Ancora in the last 20 months. ….

DeBraux’s death became public after workers at Ancora told a reporter about it. The same workers reported that another woman, Courtney Hughes, 45, of Pennsauken, died in the same ward — Ancora’s Cedar Hall A Ward — only a few months earlier.

This is so appalling, but when I heard there was another death at a psych hospital, I assumed it was Ancora. Why? Just to give you an idea, I did a search of NJ.com and APP.com for headlines about Ancora, and here’s what came up for the past few months (sans links, sorry):

Errors in patient’s care led to suicide

liz | 1:38 PM | Uncategorized