CMS will cut off Medicare funding for DeSoto, Texas-based Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital Jan. 4 after several inspections this year found lapses in patient care and safety, according to The Dallas Morning News.
The inspections cited several problems, including patients left untreated for hours and a 12-year-old boy injected with an antipsychotic for "agitation" despite video evidence showing him watching television at the time.
Administrators of the 116-bed hospital disputed many of CMS' findings and say they do not plan to stop services.
In a statement obtained by the Morning News, hospital officials said losing the funding "will result in an increase in patients needing psychiatric care languishing in emergency rooms, jails, the homeless population, or other areas where their needs cannot be met and addressed."
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