Mental Health Complex aid at risk because of reported sexual assaults

Published Feb. 12, 2010 at 8:08 p.m.
Milwaukee County faces the possible loss of millions of dollars in federal aid for its Mental Health Complex over several reported cases of patients being sexually assaulted by other patients, officials said Friday.The county was told in January to make numerous improvements to staff training and procedures, based on a federal inspection of the complex in Wauwatosa. Those improvements have already been made, but the county faces further sanctions for failing to effectively manage the complex to protect patients, said Elizabeth Surgener, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Chicago.The county has until April 21 to correct the management problems, Surgener said. Those included failure to conduct full physical examinations of patients to determine whether sexual contact had taken place, she said.


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