Mental Health Workers Feel Unsafe on the Job
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – State mental health workers gathered at the Department of Mental Health headquarters in Sacramento on Nov. 16 to demand safer work environments through increased security. Workers feel they are not being properly protected while working with unstable patient populations.
Concerns came to a head last month when Donna Gross, a psychiatric technician at Napa State Hospital, was found strangled to death on hospital grounds, ABC 7 reports. Her attacker, a mental patient named Jess Willard Massey, has been charged with her murder.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spokesman Jim Zamora told the news source that workers feel unsafe and are looking for an immediate change
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