News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
THE inhabitants of ''Jardine'' were so close to freedom, they could taste it. The 18-bed community reintegration unit has the lowest security of the seven units at Thomas Embling Hospital, Victoria's nine-year-old forensic mental health institution.
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
THE State Government has ordered a review of Victoria's forensic mental health hospital, after the killings on Wednesday night of two inpatients, allegedly at the hand of a third. Mental Health Minister Lisa Neville has ordered the state's chief...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
One Saturday night in March 2005, he turned up alone at the Reservoir police station. He was agitated, had a history of mental illness and was known to the local crisis assessment team. Police called the crisis team but, as the Department of Human...
News Source: Des Moines Register
| about 1 month ago
Dallas County Hospital has implemented stricter visitor guidelines in an effort to protect high-risk patients from the H1N1 virus: �No more than two visitors at a time. �Visitors need to be at least 18 years old. �Exceptions may be made for...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
A man charged with murdering two fellow inmates at a Melbourne psychiatric hospital was friends with one of the victims, police say. Police say the accused, Peko Lakovski, 49, and his room-mate, Raymond Splatt, 54, would often go on day leave...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 month ago
Peko Lakovski is facing two counts of murder over the deaths of Raymond Splatt and Paul Notas at the Thomas Embling Hospital, a facility used by the criminal justice system, last night. All three men had been previously charged with murder, the two...