Mind Springs patients remained in the dark even though problems were so acute that the state’s Medicaid contractor would not authorize payment for newly admitted hospital patients for three months until Mind Springs agreed to make wide-ranging changes.Īs of this writing, state regulatory agencies did not answer reporters’ questions about why they didn’t alert the public to the potentially fatal prescribing errors once last year’s investigation was complete. State officials kept the June 2021 findings secret despite mounting public concerns about the Grand Junction-based Mind Springs Health and its psychiatric hospital, West Springs. The problems only came to light this month as reporters for the Colorado News Collaborative, including The Gazette, were investigating. McKenzie Lange/Grand Junction Daily SentinelĪ pattern of “severe, life-threatening” prescription errors by the troubled mental health center responsible for treating 10 Western Slope counties put many of its patients at risk, according to the findings of an official investigation that three state agencies withheld from the public for more than nine months. State officials withheld the findings of a pattern of “severe, life-threatening” prescription errors in an official investigation for more than nine months. Mind Springs Health in Grand Junction on Friday, March 18, 2022.
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