Silver’s Woodridge Of The Ozarks Testimony

Within the first week or two of entering the program, I was attacked brutally and had an attempted murder by a patient, completely un-instigated. The patient had managed to obtain a butcher knife due to events going on that day and threw it at me. The knife had been left in the med room, which had been left open several times during my stay, which led to at least 5 separate incidents. The knife was brought into the hospital for an event where the staff were cutting up fruit for us and we learned a bit about nutrition. After this incident, no law enforcement was alerted, the incident was written down and told to my parents as it being a small butter knife, and she was still in the facility.

The next day she ended up brutally attacking me, stating she was going to kill me. Only then was law enforcement alerted and she was sent to a juvenile center. Another day a resident was able to sneak a pair of scissors from the classroom and use it to injure herself so severely she required stitches. That same resident also did this to cut her hair on a previous occasion. One time a patient had been permitted to be alone for at least 30 minutes with a glass perfume bottle, and she used it to hurt herself. In the yard there were many pieces of broken glass and possibly other sharp things that were traded around. It took a very long time to deal with it, and I personally had to help clean up the glass because no one else would. There was another incident where (at least) two patients had been left around the open med room, they grabbed several used STD testing needles and were able to harm themselves with them. Another incident with two of the same patients led to them being able to overdose on various medications they had grabbed from the same med room. Only after this incident was anyone fired, although as far as I know nothing else was done.

One day I was left in a bathroom that was locked from the outside despite trying to call to him that I was in there. I was in there for around 30 minutes (I know because of the breakfast schedule) until I figured out how to get out as I was able to unlock it from the inside. The staff involved was fired but to my knowledge nothing else happened over it. I will note that besides the first two incidents and the incidents with the two patients in the med room I am unsure as to the order of these events, but overall there was a major lack of supervision, neglect that occurred during my stay, and a lot of covering up of incidents.