The Montana Suicide Rate Reduction Council. 

 Founded in Missoula, Montana. 

August 06, 2020.

 

Hate the fate. Reduce the rate

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The direction that the suicide crisis is in Montana was made readily available in recent months. Kids, our kids, our neighbors kids, children for God's Sake are now committing suicide at 2x the national rate. On behalf of our children, thus, much must be done. You got that Rosston? You got that Meier? It was bad enough to know that MT was already the most dangerous state to live, raise a family, send a kid to college in if the issue of suicide in at stake. Now it's going this direction, and there can be no denying one day more that our suicide crisis is being overseen by a man who is doing just as badly as did all of his many predecessors over the last century. 

 

Karl Rosston.
Under his watch:
MT kids are committing suicide
at 2X the national rate of youth suicies.

Given the gravity of what we are seeing today with regard to ongoing concerns about the operation of The Montana State Hospital in recent months, the citizens of Montana must be gravely concerned about whether the current crisis is going to make any difference. Fact is, DPHHS/MSH was subject to the same level of scrutiny for the same exact reason in 2016-17, staff shortages that led to the same consequences we are seeing today. Fact is, some number of administrative staff who worked there then still work there today. And it must not be forgotten that most of them have authority specific to our suicide crisis, as well.

 

Current MSH administrator Kyle Fouts, is scheduled to speak publicly about the issues occurring at MSH. He must provide the citizens of Montana in detail whatever specific measures he intends to put in place. The 2016-17 CMS investigation sure didn't help, so why should the pubic expect that this time will be any different. These patterns lead to preventable suffering, and too much in the way our taxes. Fouts, meanwhile, is a correction industry professional, and corrections just not e confused with any state manager hospital facility. His demeanor has been made clear, and he need's to go. 

The public's right to know extends very necessarily to Public health care employees, and such employees give up by contract the privacy protections that they have going when not working on the proverbial clock. This is textbook in any state in the nation, public officials owe such things on the basis of working for the public. In this specific case, there are several directly involved state employees who for some unexplainable reason are not being named by the media. Media is also failing to include the primary stakeholders in any of its recent articles. Everybody, in essence, other than the citizens who are impacted in this crisis. The citizen's voice is immensely important in any circumstances, while in these circumstances, our citizens represent the pain and suffering associated with our suicide crisis; ergo, these voices are critical if any hope is to be entertained that change for the better is possible. 

People like mid-level manager Jeff Pfluge, for example, who actively sought to dissuade the reporting of the fall 2016-2017 crisis at MSH, working in complicity with then MSH chief executive officer, Jay Pottenger. Along with the MT Board of Visitors representative, attorney Craig Fitch, who had been complicit in terms of not coming forward before such of these crises play out. MT citizens are dying very suspicious deaths under Fitch's watch at Montana State Hospital, a handful of such tragedies in the last 7-8 months. To the extent that Fitch's boss has been advised of these facts, we still see no evidence to effect that Fitch has been removed. But he will be, and we keep at it until he is. 

Jay Pottenger
MSH CEO. 2015-18.

However, focus must be directed to the death of an elderly woman at MSH in summer, 2020. This case came to include destruction of critically needed evidentiary materials. As it was told, an in-house investigator of that death claimed the video footage from the day of her death had been recorded over. In-house investigations of the cause the death of a citizen at Montana State Hospital must not be permitted. It's also true that accidental and more so willful destruction of video evidence would be a criminal act if it hadn't happened at MSH.

State managed mental hospitals are well known for hiding if not destroying such evidence. Our data base includes that, in summer, 2011, an individual at the AZ state hospital was assaulted by staff person, and the video in that matter was visibly altered so as to skip over the 4-5 seconds showing that assault.

But again, and in closing, the current situation at Montana State Hospital must not be allowed to happen, but it did, so we just make certain that things don't continue in this way. 

"I have come to abhor dirty lawyers in public mental health care no less than I abhor depraved psychiatric professionals. As to those of you currently working for DPHHS today, 

I intend to cook your asses." 

                                                 P. Jack Reed.

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