State’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital gets failure warning

State’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital gets failure warning

Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, the state-run maximum security psychiatric hospital for people charged with serious criminal offenses, received a major warning this month from accreditors about poor conditions at the facility that could lead to its shutdown.

STATE ROUNDUP: Perkins pysch hospital denied accreditation; SUPREMEs rule for DEPORTED MD MAN'S RETURN

PERKINS, STATE-RUN PSYCH HOSPITAL, DENIED ACCREDITATION: A nationwide health-care safety inspection group preliminarily denied accreditation last week to Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, the maximum-security psychiatric facility that has been beset by patient safety concerns, chronic understaffing and high leadership turnover. The Joint Commission, a private organization that accredits health-care facilities nationwide, was at Perki…

Maryland’s max-security psych hospital denied accreditation after inspection

After a four-day inspection, the Joint Commission preliminarily denied the psych hospital’s accreditation — an extraordinary move that is one step away from an outright revocation.