by CCHR CO | Jan 8, 2018 | News for Colorado
Admitted Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. has complained during his court appearances about the “chemical lobotomy” he is receiving from the antipsychotic drugs being forcibly administered to him at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo...
by CCHR CO | Jun 20, 2017 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) until June 28 to correct serious deficiencies in the care of its patients or else lose its Medicare and Medicaid funding. Acting on complaints of...
by CCHR CO | May 27, 2017 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
A state investigation has concluded that staff neglect was the cause of the choking incident last September at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) that caused brain damage leading to a patient’s death, according to the occurrence summary report...
by CCHR CO | Feb 4, 2013 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed in Denver Federal Court A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court in Denver alleging that a woman languishing in legal limbo at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) was kidnapped by CMHIP staff and forcibly...
by CCHR CO | Dec 3, 2012 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
An act of violence at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo has cost a patient one eye and possibly her sight in the other. According to the Pueblo Chieftain, a sleeping female patient was stabbed in the eyes and face with scissors last Wednesday by...