Pennsylvania health officials in 2011 temporarily stopped a mental health center from admitting children or teens after they found poor conditions, excessive use of physical restraints, and too few people caring for patients, according to state records.
In a psychiatric hospital in Chicago the same year, investigators found that violence was “an everyday occurrence,” fueled by understaffing.
And when regulators in North Carolina last year took steps to revoke the license of a residential treatment center after violence at the facility, they cited, among other things, incompetent clinical staff.