State inspectors visited six Southwest Key facilities. Here's what they found.
A suicidal child tried to hurt themselves in Southwest Key facility in Phoenix, but 911 was never called. A child in a Glendale shelter was given antidepressant medication, but there was no medical record of why the drug was needed. Other children with food allergies and food intolerance vomited and lost weight, and didn’t have specialized meals provided to them in Mesa, Phoenix and Tucson shelters operated by Southwest Key.
Those were some of the findings inspectors from the Arizona Department of Health Services noted in visits to six Southwest Key facilities in Phoenix, Glendale, Mesa, and Tucson, between January 22 and March 28.
The reviews were part of the process of reopening Southwest Key shelters, which ADHS placed on an admissions freeze as part of an October settlement. The agreement stemmed from an ADHS notice to revoke all of Southwest Key licenses after it found record-keeping violations, and the company blew the deadline to correct it.
The inspection reports are posted on the ADHS’s database for deficiencies recorded at facilities it licenses, AZcarecheck.com.
Read more: https://www.azmirror.com/2019/05/16/state-inspectors-visited-six-southwest-key-facilities-heres-what-they-found/