"How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients"

The real-life version of the next season of AMC's The Terror:

[One of America’s largest chains of psychiatric hospitals], which charges $2,200 a day for some patients, at times deploys an array of strategies to persuade insurers to cover longer stays, employees said. [The hospital chain] has exaggerated patients’ symptoms. It has tweaked medication dosages, then claimed patients needed to stay longer because of the adjustment. And it has argued that patients are not well enough to leave because they did not finish a meal.

Unless the patients or their families hire lawyers, [the hospital] often holds them until their insurance runs out.

"47 Alameda County Sheriff's deputies were...relieved of their law enforcement duties because they received 'unsatisfactory' on psychological examinations dating back to 2016"

KTVU:

The letter comes in the same month that [a sheriff's deputy] shot and killed a couple in their Dublin home after he finished a double shift at Santa Rita Jail. He had been having a romantic relationship with the wife, who had been a nurse at the John George Psychiatric Center. 

Four sources told KTVU that [the deputy] failed his psychological exam and because of liability issues, the sheriff is now auditing who else in the department might have also failed.

When asked if the audit was prompted by [the murder], [the sheriff's spokesperson] answered: "I'd have to say yes."

When the slayer is a bullfighter; Sad dinosaur; The time-traveling dog that survived 911

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"The New York City Police Department . . . lost its ninth officer this year to suicide"

Buzzfeed:

“This is crazy,” said Denise Jablonski-Kaye, a clinical psychologist and the assistant commanding officer of behavioral science services at the LAPD. “It really is.”

Since July 2017, there have been no reported suicides of officers at the LAPD, where the department has an entirely different way of handling mental health services.

Jablonski-Kaye believes the NYPD needs to immediately change its approach, noting that the LAPD has 16 full-time clinical psychologists who are embedded in its force — each has an assigned station that they visit most weeks, and participate in ride-alongs — and offer free counseling with no limit on sessions.

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In Los Angeles, 350 officers are trained in peer support, with Jablonski-Kaye noting that’s how most officers — there are 10,000 in the department — first access the clinical psychologist services.

At the LAPD, unlike most police departments, including the NYPD, the staff psychologists who conduct debriefing sessions with officers after traumatic incidents or hold private counseling sessions are not the same people who oversee fitness-for-duty examinations under the health department.