Lawmakers grill SC Mental Health agency over patient’s suffocation by staffers
August 14, 2019
JULY 23, 2019 04:22 PM, UPDATED JULY 23, 2019 09:21 PM
By Avery G. Wilks
The State
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article233007132.html
COLUMBIA, SCFor the first time on Tuesday, S.C. Department of Mental Health leaders were publicly asked why a longtime patient died in January from suffocation after the agency’s employees piled on top of him.
For two hours, a House panel tasked with conducting a routine review of the agency dove into Mental Health’s failed handling of 35-year-old Georgetown native William Avant. Members of that Read More
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