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Healthcare Security Weekly, March 19, 2007
An employee at the state mental hospital in Chattahoochee, FL was left with three teeth knocked out after an outbreak of violence at the facility March 11. The disturbance, which was quelled with a chemical spray and intervention by city and county police, left the employee injured and a patient in the mental retardation unit with a severe head cut, reported the Tallahassee Democrat.
A report from the Agency for Persons with Disabilities said several patients were placed in extended seclusion because of the fight, the newspaper reported. The fight occurred in the Mentally Retarded Defendant Program, which is on the grounds of Florida State Hospital. The newspaper said employees have complained frequently in recent months of attacks by dangerous patients at the state hospital's forensic ward and the mental-retardation program.
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