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Norristown State Hospital piloted a different type of administrative hierarchy for hospitals, wherein female patients would be treated exclusively by a female physician. To run this new medical department, they appointed Dr. Alice Bennett to govern over the medical and psychiatric affairs of the new hospital. Dr.
The year before his return to VCH, an average of around 26 patients died annually at the 56-bed hospital and the four-bed intensive care unit. [5] After Majors started working at the facility, however, the rate skyrocketed to more than 100 per year, with nearly one out of every three patients admitted to the hospital dying.
Prior to the competency hearing Seegrist was transferred to Norristown State Hospital for evaluation. [10] On March 6, 1986, Seegrist was deemed competent to stand trial for the killings. [ 11 ] Found guilty, but insane, she was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences (one for each victim she killed) and seven consecutive 10-year terms ...
Bucks County Sheriff Warrant Officers walk Andre Gordon Jr., center, a triple murder suspect, in to be arraigned at the Bucks County 07-1-10 Magisterial District Court in Falls Township on ...
A critical care doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 patients who were allegedly deliberately given overdoses of painkillers.
The family of a mental patient who died in law-enforcement custody last year at Central State Hospital is re-stressing its call for U.S. Justice Department involvement after Dinwiddie’s top ...
Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, [1] October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.
Charles Edmund Cullen (born February 22, 1960) is an American serial killer.While working as a nurse, Cullen murdered dozens—possibly hundreds—of patients during a 16-year career spanning several New Jersey and Pennsylvania medical centers until being arrested in 2003.