Monday, August 25, 2008

Head of DHHS Demands Discipline

RALEIGH — The man whom Gov. Mike Easley charged with fixing North Carolina’s mental health system said Friday that hospital administrators failed to properly discipline employees responsible for leaving a patient without food for nearly a full day before he died. Dempsey Benton aid that Jack St. Clair, director of Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro, has been ordered to re-examine the discipline, which ranged from counseling to five-day suspensions.

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