The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, Montana, lost federal funding in April 2022 after an investigation into four patient deaths and a violent patient-on-patient assault.(Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio)
March 3, 2023
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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.