Negligence.(Banner Health System's negligence in handling drug abuse patients)

Security Management, July, 2004 by Anderson, Teresa

Negligence. The Alaska Supreme Court ruled in a recent case that an out-patient substance abuse treatment facility had a duty to protect its patients from harm during the course of the treatment. Specifically, the court said that the center should have taken steps to warn patients that others in the treatment program might be prone to violence.

The Family Recovery Center, operated by Banner Health System, provides out-patient substance abuse treatment in Fairbanks, Alaska. Both Diana Bryson and Laurence Kompkoff were placed in the center's continuing-care self-help group after each had completed an intensive substance abuse program. As part of the program, each patient signed a form acknowledging that their records were confidential and that unauthorized...

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