Jennifer Mitchell thumbs through her husband’s medical records from his time at the Montana State Hospital. After Mitchell's husband was discharged from the hospital, she discovered he was taken off some of his congestive heart failure medications. He later suffered cardiac arrest and died in hospice care. (Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio)
March 3, 2023
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March 5, 2023 midnight
Information blackout shrouds new reports of deaths, injuries and abuse at Montana State Hospital
BUTTE, Mont. — Jennifer Mitchell remembered getting a call nearly two years ago that her 69-year-old husband, Bill, had crashed his car and had been committed to the Montana State Hospital, the state-run psychiatric hospital for adults about 20 miles from their home in Butte.