In implementing the recommendations HCFA will strengthen the system of external review intended to protect psychiatric inpatients. Your report should be very helpful in improving the quality of care in psychiatric hospitals. All psychiatric hospitals are surveyed through the Comprehensive Manual for Hospitals. This is false advertising. Trade press coverage of this letter is also attached.
Psychiatric hospitals prefer the less rigorous general standards.
The day after the award of this highest ranking, Gloria Huntley, in restraints for 558 hours during her last two months of life, died in restraints. This example just affirms the OIG observation. It seems an interesting attitude by the legal agent of a governmental agency, particularly an agent controlled by the regulated industry. This is the section of the act authorizing deemed status. NAMI doubts whether HCFA is performing this obligation.