Legal guardians of Wyoming State Hospital patients say serious problems persist at the mental-health facility four years after employees abandoned an incapacitated woman on a couch without food, water or bathroom use for over 24 hours.
Serious problems persist at Wyoming's largest mental health facility four years after employees left an incapacitated woman on a couch without food, water or bathroom use for over 24 hours, according to two groups that provide legal and advocacy services to patients in need.
Workers found patient Linda Gelok abandoned on a dayroom couch at the State Hospital in 2015. They needed her moved so they could work on a television. She reeked of urine and had an awkwardly kinked neck, court records said. Ants crawled on sores on her feet. Last June, a patient hanged himself with a bedsheet. In October, a certified nursing assistant pleaded no contest to charges he sexually assaulted a patient two years earlier. He had been tasked with watching her so she wouldn't harm herself.
The department wants to get way from treating the State Hospital as long-term housing for people who've been involuntarily committed by courts, said Ceballos, a former telecom industry executive appointed after Gov. Mark Gordon took office in January.
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