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Wow, aidan970, that is shocking and I am stunned. I would be over the edge, too. I thought MA was such an enlightened place. That limitation is so wrong.
"Charity" though it may be, plenty of people running it make lucrative salaries. They should be just as accountable as their counterparts at private facilities.
You're darn right "they are a business." And the people who work there are there to make money from the staff member who assaulted you up to the administrator who runs the place. Lots of hospitals are designated as "non-profit." I never heard that they were immune from being sued. People in MA are successfully suing the Catholic Church (of which I am a member) and that is a non-profit entity. It certainly does charitable work. What you describe is the most screwed up thing I've heard of in a long while.
Something is very wrong with that picture. As you say, they are not being "held responsible," and they are very responsible. That rogue employee did not operate in a vacuum. His behavior towards you was, most likely, not the first sign that he had a problem interacting with patients. The place probably hires from the bottom of the barrel. Charge nurses and supervisors know when they have a problem employee, if they make it their business to know.
I was in a psych facility in 1982. The patient care givers were pretty much unsupervised by the licensed nurses. I reported that a male attendant had roughly treated the elderly female patient in the room next to mine. This same attendant was "romantically" interested in my 16 year old roommate.
This is the place where I get my psych care now. What a crummy system the most powerful nation on earth has.
I'm truly sorry for your situation.
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