Newsletter Articles | May 31, 1990
Family of Social Worker Sues Hospitals
OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry News
The mother of a psychiatric social worker has sued two Pittsburgh-area hospitals (McKeesport Hospital and Braddock General Hospital), claiming that their negligence led to her daughters death at St. Francis Medical Center. According to a report in the February 12, 1990 issue of Health Week, social worker Linda Rosen was helping admit a patient, Edith Anderson, to St. Francis. Ms. Anderson shot and killed Ms. Rosen, supposedly to draw attention to the mentally ill. Rosen . . .