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Friday, August 23

New RAH failure kicked off mental health wait crisis

The current emergency department waiting times crisis for mental health patients in South Australia started with the closure of Oakden and the opening of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, new data shows.

SA Health ducks accountability on unsafe unit

An unsafe public healthcare facility, kept open for years despite safety warnings, run by the same organisation that failed to stop the horrors of Oakden during the same period: SA Health has serious questions to answer about the Lyell McEwin short stay unit.

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Timeline: SA Health was warned, again and again

Here’s a timeline of all the known warnings, incidents and reports about the Lyell McEwin Hospital short stay unit, which SA Health kept open for almost three years despite those warnings.

Patients “cowering in fear”: SA Health was warned about unsafe mental health unit

EXCLUSIVE | Patients recovering from surgery and those with mental illness were forced to share bedrooms at the “appalling” mental health unit SA Health closed late last year, InDaily can reveal.

New mental health scandal hits SA Health

EXCLUSIVE | The physical features of an “appalling” Adelaide mental health unit facilitated at least two suicide attempts before SA Health closed it a year later, new documents show.

Three patients died by apparent suicide after leaving Adelaide hospital

Three more mental health patients died after being discharged from the Lyell McEwin Hospital and at least two patients were put at risk because they were released without going through proper processes, documents obtained under freedom of information laws reveal.