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Home > Tags > villa caritasSeclusion & Restraint in Mental Hospitals
Restraint and seclusion are behavioural management interventions that should be used as a last resort to control a behavioural emergency. Behavioural emergencies are often the result of unmet health, functional, or psychosocial needs, and you can often reduce, eliminate, or manage such emergencies by addressing the conditions that produced them. Restraints include the use of […]
Class Action Lawsuit Seclusion In Mental Hospitals
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT CITING ALLEGED USE OF PROLONGED ISOLATION ON MENTAL PATIENTS. The legal battle against solitary confinement in Canada has moved beyond the prisons in a proposed class-action lawsuit against a high-security psychiatric hospital for its alleged use of prolonged isolation on patients. The lawsuit accuses the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in […]
Violence, Coercion, Villa Caritas
Via Facsimile (780) 420 0651 REGISTERED MAIL TO FOLLOW “Physicians have a powerful quasi-judicial position in society in that they can detain lawful citizens behind locked doors and remove all property and human rights”. March 14, 2015 To College of Physicians and Surgeons Reference: Alberta Mental Health Review Panel, March 10, 2015, @ 9:30 AM […]
Abuse & Neglect at Covenant Health, Villa Caritas Geriatric Centre
The client has suffered total neglect and malpractice by professional staff. She is kept in a state of perpetual fear, fear of being disciplined, fear of being subjected to takedowns and fear of being subjected to forced (psychotropic) injections…
Lisa Goltman dies of injuries
Lisa Goltman dies of injuries sustained at Alberta Hospital Edmonton. To date, no criminal charges have been laid by Edmonton City Police. On March 27, 2013 this Edmonton woman was so severely injured at Alberta Hospital that she had to be sent to the emergency room of the University Hospital. The injuries were allegedly sustained […]
Takedown of 80 year old, Villa Caritas
August 30, 2011 Minister of Health & Wellness, the Honorable Gene Zwozdesky Complaints Manager, College of Physicians and Surgeons 2700 Telus Plaza South, 10020 100th Street Edmonton, AB. T5J 0N3 Solicitor General & Minister of Public Security,Honourable Frank Oberle Legislature Building, Edmonton, AB. ——————————————- COMPLAINT re. Dr. Kevin Lawless, Psychiatrist, Geriatric unit, Villa Caritas, 16515 […]
Repeatedly cold rooms at Villa Caritas
Again the heat in Room 2117, has been turned down. The resident determined that some other rooms had appropriate heat…
Visitation, recreation refused at Villa Caritas
Please be advised that your staff have been isolating Ms. P, disallowing her to attend recreation activities.
Cold Rooms at Villa Caritas
On October 28, 2011, after we had made a number of complaints, the temperature was turned up to reasonable heat. Said Resident finally felt that she could take a shower which she did.
Villa Caritas Video Surveillance
In the past we have made serious complaints against staff of the geriatric mental hospital, Villa Caritas. We have alleged that abuse and even violence is being perpetrated against very, vulnerable seniors, seniors detained behind locked doors. Our complaints have been summarily dismissed.
Gloria Pickles: Human Rights Complaint at Villa Caritas
Alleging that since November 2009, until the present, these persons have totally and egregiously contravened the rights of Gloria Pickles…