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Family of Social Worker Sues Hospitals

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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 daughter’s 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 . . .

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