{"id":955,"date":"2011-12-24T18:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=955"},"modified":"2013-12-29T22:23:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T05:23:49","slug":"5tgcziciqstf-t-v3-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"State Hospital Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>The Utah State Hospital has
\n been the center of a smouldering
\n Controversy for several months.
\n Now the Utah Legislative Social
\n Services Interim Study Commit-
\n tee has passed a motion asking
\n the attorney general to in-
\n vestigate possible mallcasance
\n and misappropriation of Iunds at
\n the Provo institution.
\n Dr. Roger S. Kiger. superinten-
\n dent, quickly welcomed the in-
\n vestigation and said that the
\n hospital has nothing to hide, He
\n took occasion also to express
\n pride in the hospital’s operation of
\n providing quality care for the
\n patients.
\n The low key controversy was
\n fed by a report by the auditor
\n ” general who asserted there was
\n ” overstocking on some food items;
\n that an excessive number of vehi-
\n cles had been acquired; and thats
\n some things purchased could not
\n be found.
\n Dr. Kiger declared that in all of
\n the discussions, no complaints
\n have been made about patient
\n care. “And that’s what this
\n hospital is all about and that is
\n what I am concerned with, the
\n care of our patients,” he said.
\n V The Department of Social Ser-
\n vices decided some time ago to
\n split the administration of the
\n hospital under two heads. An ad-
\n ministrator has been appointed,
\n due at the hospital Aug 8, to han-
\n dle the business operation; and. it
\n is understood. a clinical director
\n is to be named. Meantime. Dr.
\n Kiger is still superintendent. His
\n status after the new ad-
\n ministrator arrives hasn’t been
\n made clear.
\n With an investigation at the
\n hospital now requested. it is
\n hoped the probe will be made
\n speedily and objectively so that
\n the controversy can be settled
\n once and for all.
\n The attorney general, if he is to
\n assume the responsibility, should
\n assign fair and competent person-
\n nel to search out the facts in a
\n careful, unbiased manner so that
\n intelligent evaluations can be
\n made. If corrections need to be
\n made, so be it; and if the facts
\n vindicate those in charge, this
\n should be clearly stated also.
\n The state hospital is a valued in-
\n stitution in the Utah hospital and
\n welfare program. It has won wide
\n recognition for its programs of
\n patient treatment and rehabilita-
\n tion. It is therefore important that
\n its future not become clouded in
\n politics or prolonged hassling. ‘
\n Under the circumstances, an in=
\n vestigation. accomplished with
\n fairness and dispatch. can prove a
\n healthy thing for the state and the
\n institution. ,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Utah State Hospital has been the center of a smouldering Controversy for several months. Now the Utah Legislative Social Services Interim Study Commit- tee has passed a motion asking the attorney general to in- vestigate possible mallcasance and misappropriation of Iunds at the Provo institution. Dr. Roger S. Kiger. superinten- dent, quickly welcomed the… Continue reading State Hospital Investigation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,18,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}