Curious how this wasn't widely reported: https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/01/mental-health-workers-in-us-won-a-safety-strike/
The backstory: https://labornotes.org/2021/09/if-your-house-fire-you-run-workers-strike-safety-understaffed-mental-health-center:
Acadia Healthcare has found other ways to line their pockets with federal dollars. In 2019 the company was charged Medicaid fraud for the overfilling of lab tests. Acadia settled and agreed to pay the largest health care fraud-related settlement in West Virginia history: $3.2 million to the state and $17 million to the United States.
Workers at Cascade say the company’s ruthless cost cutting and pursuit of profit has meant neglected building repairs, unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios, and admitting patients they couldn’t safely care for to fill beds.
BLAME THE WORKERS
Many of the staff are immigrants, predominantly from East Africa. They accuse Cascade’s management of being racist and xenophobic.
When patients attack, managers have repeatedly blamed the workers—claiming that they don’t speak English well enough and that their “accents aggravate patients.”
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