Georgetown psychiatric hospital facing whistleblower lawsuit, state fine

Nicola Seahorn was working at Georgetown Behavioral Health Institute when she saw video that showed an employee punching a patient in the face.

It was June 2018 and Seahorn, then the clinical services director, had been at the facility for just a few months. But she was already worried about patient care.

So when she learned a male staffer had hit a young patient, Seahorn said she called state regulators.

Two weeks later, she was fired. Seahorn filed a whistleblower lawsuit that details the incident, and said she’d been axed for reporting the hospital to authorities.

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